[16650] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Core router bakeoff?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Thu May 7 23:22:02 1998
To: "Jason L. Weisberger" <jweis@softaware.com>
cc: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 07 May 1998 18:45:46 PDT."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 23:11:23 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
"Jason L. Weisberger" writes:
> On Thu, 7 May 1998, Karl Denninger wrote:
> > Well, the GRF has its good and bad points. I've tested one rather
> > extensively, although I admit it was some time (~8-9 months) ago.
>
> I've been rather upset with Ascend over their lack of reaction to the bug
> in the Pipe 150 that had it publishing ARP statments for every ip address
> that went by its ethernet interface. Have you found their other products
> to be better supported and safer to fire and forget?
The GRF started as a product from another company (Netstar?) that
Ascend bought, and it has a different software base.
That said, I have no personal experience with the GRF and don't know
if it works well. It just looks neat from what I can tell.
.pm
