[12029] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: perf #s for GRF vs 7500 Re: Anyone Deployed Ascend's GRF IP S witch?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Skrobola)
Wed Aug 27 14:28:40 1997
To: "Chris A. Icide" <chris@nap.net>
cc: Tony Li <tli@juniper.net>, Paul Peterson <paulp@winterlan.com>,
"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 27 Aug 1997 13:01:46 -0500.
<01BCB2E9.6046AD60@Mallard.nap.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 14:14:10 -0400
From: Rob Skrobola <rjs@ans.net>
Chris,
Really, I wasn't comparing. Mostly I was just responding to the
bgp memory usage issue, and noted load on the boxes to indicate that
these were not unused boxes doing that number of peers.
>From: "Chris A. Icide" <chris@nap.net>
> Comparing your BAY routers to everyone elses is like comparing a
>top fuel dragster to someones 69 Chevelle street racer. You folks have some
>heavily modified software and hardware, from what I understand.
Actually, we use stock bcn/bln hardware. As to general
availability of the software mods, I don't really know..
RobS
> However, we've got a couple of BAY BCN/BLN routers about, and the
>numbers that have been mentioned previously in this thread are fairly accurate.
>
