[123459] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Alcatel-Lucent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (piotr sawicki)
Tue Mar 9 13:05:55 2010
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:03:36 +0100
From: piotr sawicki <piotr.sawicki.pl@gmail.com>
To: Chris Wallace <lists@iamchriswallace.com>
In-Reply-To: <4B94FC14.4040106@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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> The worst thing in it was bgp proto .. Router was unable to withstand
> 20+ peering sessions , most of that outgoing bgp session to customers
> , a few peerings , and only 1v2 incoming upstream providers
> When there was instability/surge in bgp updates , router was able to
> break itself tcp sess. Dwnld bgp table (150,000prefix) took 2h or more
> ...
> Things done in hardware should be working although ( bridge .. , maybe
> label switching , vpls ) Tech support is very weak. Expect problems
> with interoperability .
> Sorry to say that . It was 3+ years time ago , maybe they improved
> themself .. :)
>
Hi,
I must say we had very old timos 2.0R17 , as you now use 8.0 I guess ..
As most of my complains is against software , this may be improved - i
hope it is :)
Hardware is solid, 'hard to kill'
Sorry for a bit preliminary assumptions about 7750SR platform .
// regards PiotrSawicki.
