[150862] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Huawei edge routers..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Tue Mar 6 17:29:01 2012
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:28:08 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 3/6/2012 3:41 PM, Jonathon Exley wrote:
> I last played with Huawei routers about 10 years ago and it looked very much like IOS. Interesting that they have changed.
> Also interesting that you don't like Alcatel's TiMOS - I prefer it to IOS, and find it comparable to Junos.
> I suppose we all have our own tastes...
>
Huawei looks very much like IOS, except many of the commands were
renamed. Someone mentioned a reason to me, but I don't know if it was
true, so I won't repeat it.
IOS at least supports | section, and I hear that IOS-XR and IOS-XE both
have advanced configuration capabilities similar to Junos, but I don't
own any of the hardware that supports those code bases.
I've yet to find a router vendor I liked 100%, though. Limited feature
sets, interoperability problems, bugs, and months to resolve issues and
generally requiring upgrades to code that has new issues. :(
But as you said, we all have our own tastes... Mine just happens to be
for a non-existent company/product.
Jack
