[16636] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Core router bakeoff?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Green)
Thu May 7 22:52:13 1998
To: perry@piermont.com
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 07 May 1998 16:54:27 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 16:31:23 -0500
From: Jon Green <jcgreen@netins.net>
On Thu, 07 May 1998 16:54:27 -0400, perry@piermont.com writes:
>
>
>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.
Wait.. a Bay BCN will push 1 Gb/s through the box, but you are recommending
a PC running GateD over a Bay router? If you are going to tell people
"don't use this" a least give some reasons why to justify it.
-Jon
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