[16615] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Core router bakeoff?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Thu May 7 18:03:11 1998
To: agirsch@OASysGroup.com (Arnaud Girsch)
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 07 May 1998 14:43:19 PDT."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 17:47:22 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Arnaud Girsch writes:
> > 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.
>
> Just out of curiosity ...
> Why not considering the 4th vendor, Cabletron, for this kind of equipment,
> before using PCs.
PCs are cheap and I know them well. I wasn't aware Cabletron even had
a box with a BGP-4 implementation in it.
> They just released some announcement that major companies and campuses are
> using their equipment for new backbones.
That sounds like salesspeak. I've used lots of cabletron hubs and such
over the years, but they never seemed to have real routers.
Perry
