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Re: Anyone Deployed Ascend's GRF IP Switch?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Tue Aug 26 06:10:37 1997

To: hoff@nodewarrior.net (Christofer Hoff)
cc: nanog@merit.edu, neil@domino.org
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 22 Aug 1997 10:20:50 PDT."
             <3.0.3.32.19970822102050.00955530@mail.nodewarrior.net> 
From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org>
Reply-To: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 10:15:34 +0100

On Fri, 22 Aug 1997 10:20:50 -0700 
 hoff@nodewarrior.net (Christofer Hoff) wrote:

> SO, the bottom line...has anyone else deployed multiple GRF400's with 
> success.  
> Ascend will tell you that UUNET has deployed (or is going to) a 
> hundred or so.
> I want to talk to people USING the technology, not thinking about it.
> 
> Your comments and opinions are welcomed.
> 

Yes I have a pile of them, they work well, but there are alot of
gotchas on them. UUNET are using them now btw:

>Trying 137.39.110.142...
>Connected to 105.ga025.XR4.NYC1.Alter.Net.
>Escape character is '^]'.
>
>
>Ascend Embedded/OS 1.3 (XR4.NYC1.Alter.Net) (ttyp0)
>
>User: Connection closed by foreign host.             

And if you've not used gated before I'd recommend using PC's to do a 
mock up of your planned backbone.

Regards,
Neil.
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