[16647] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Core router bakeoff?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Stratton)
Thu May 7 23:12:10 1998
Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 21:40:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Nathan Stratton <nathan@robotics.net>
To: Jon Green <jcgreen@netins.net>
cc: perry@piermont.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199805072131.QAA03031@worf.netins.net>
On Thu, 7 May 1998, Jon Green wrote:
> 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.
Well I also like PC Routers over BCN. You are right a BCN can push much
more data then a PC Router, but of you look at value and ease of use the
PC Routers wins. When you need more bandwidth then a PC can handle then
you can move to a GRF and just copy over your configs. :-)
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Nathan Stratton Telecom & ISP Consulting
www.robotics.net nathan@robotics.net
> -Jon
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