[145228] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco 7600 PFC3B(XL) and IPv6 packets with fragmentation header
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Fri Sep 30 21:34:43 2011
From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 01:32:24 +0000
In-Reply-To: <CAL9jLaZRzJKDhvw4KwPwzCCSYwyRF4-PUFasp-6pgDUqp69P7g@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sep 30, 2011, at 11:44 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> this is exactly why punting anything NOT management and/or routing-protoc=
ols should be banned. Thanks for making that point explicitly.
And this is the requirement which should be placed in RFPs, along with othe=
r specific requirements for ACL handling, flow telemetry functionality, uRP=
F, et. al.
If folks want to influence vendors to do the Right Thing, they have to expe=
nd the time and effort to quantify and qualify said Right Thing(s), and the=
n put it into RFP requirements. Otherwise, complaining post-procurement is=
n't generally going to accomplish much.
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