[16605] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Core router bakeoff?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Thu May 7 17:08:16 1998
To: Rob M VanHooren <rob@linkd.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 07 May 1998 16:56:46 EDT."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 16:54:27 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Rob M VanHooren writes:
> Hi, just a quickie (respond via e-mail, I'll summarize to the list)...
>
> Need to build a core NSP backbone.
>
> Who's equipment do I want:
Like this is a question?
You don't want Bay and you certainly don't want 3Com. If your network
is fairly slow (ethernets and T1s only) you can use PCs running a
reasonable BSD and GateD. Otherwise, the only commercial choice is
Cisco.
.pm
> 1) cisco
> 2) Bay
> 3) 3Com
>
> Please include model, personal likes/dislikes, caveats, etc, etc...
>
> Thanks! Bakeoff ends May 31st/98...
>
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