[16612] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Core router bakeoff?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Thu May 7 17:52:09 1998
To: Gregory Mirsky <gmirsky@BayNetworks.COM>
cc: perry@piermont.com, Rob M VanHooren <rob@linkd.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 07 May 1998 17:24:42 EDT."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 17:33:03 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Gregory Mirsky writes:
> Perry, may I ask why you exclude Bay and 3Com? Any particular bad
> experience from the previous life?
I've only actually had bad experience with Bay stuff -- 3Com isn't
even in the running for the most part -- the software doesn't even
pretend to be able to do the job for a backbone.
> And Rob, it you're building a backbone I'd add Ascend's GRF to the list.
Actually, I rather like the architecture of the GRF, though I must
admit to have never tried one out. I've heard some good things and
they might be worth a test or two.
Perry
