[12093] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anyone Deployed Ascend's GRF IP Switch?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Lothberg)
Thu Sep 4 15:59:59 1997
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 97 21:42:37 MET DST
From: Peter Lothberg <roll@Stupi.SE>
To: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
Cc: nathan@netrail.net (Nathan Stratton), damonh@netrex.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 2 Sep 1997 22:45:31 -0400 (EDT)
> > > GRF's also take about 5-10 minutes to reboot, which can be annoying.
> > Nathan Stratton President, CTO,
NetRail,Inc.
> My 7206s reboot in well under a minute (the -p- builds fit right into
> bootflash, so no need for a boot-then-think-then-load-flash-then-think
> cycle).
>
> Once up, they transfer full routes bidirectionally with 7505s in
> 10-15 seconds.
> Avi
Our BFR:s (cisco 12000) reboots in less than a minute and if it's a
box reload the outage is short enough so that downstream IBGP speakers
maintain their BGP sessions that are routed through the reloaded box.
--Peter
