[122579] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BIRD vs Quagga
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Wed Feb 17 06:48:42 2010
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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:48:06 +0000
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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On 17/02/2010 01:19, Randy Bush wrote:
> i would add decades of bad anecdotes where the data plane is not
> congruent with the control plane. in general, when plane N is not
> congruent with plane N+1, management and debugging are problematic.
I've always maintained publicly and privately that route servers are not
for everyone. A good rule of thumb is: "using a route collector for
peering is probably suitable for your network unless you know why it isn't".
Interesting choice of wording: "decades of bad anecdotes". Does that mean
anecdata?
Nick
