[123289] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Alcatel-Lucent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Weeks)
Thu Mar 4 18:56:37 2010
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 15:54:52 -0800
From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: surfer@mauigateway.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
--- mirotrem@gmail.com wrote:
I'll have to second everything everyone is saying. Absolutely pleased
with everything about them. Just wish I had more 7750s instead of
7450s.
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That reminds me of one thing that adds more complexity. We carry our internet in a VPRN for various reasons. The 7450s don't do BGP AFAIK in a VPRN. So, if your downstream BGP customers will physically attach to the 7450 you'll have to epipe over to a 7750 to terminate BGP. Then, since the epipe doesn't go down, you'll have to do BFD with the customer. Many customers say "do what?"... ;-) If you don't do BFD they'll have to wait for the BGP session to time out.
scott
