[16654] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Core router bakeoff?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Fri May 8 07:21:49 1998
To: perry@piermont.com
cc: Jon Green <jcgreen@netins.net>, nanog@merit.edu, neil@domino.org
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 07 May 1998 17:36:45 EDT."
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From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org>
Reply-To: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org>
Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 12:09:52 +0100
On Thu, 07 May 1998 17:36:45 -0400
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
Bays software sucks, the ammount of hassle I've had with frame relay and
ATM with Bay is a nightmare.
The Ascend GRF-400 is an excellent choice.
>
> Jon Green writes:
> > Wait.. a Bay BCN will push 1 Gb/s through the box,
>
> Bay's have beautiful hardware architectures. The hardware is not the
> problem.
>
> > but you are recommending a PC running GateD over a Bay router?
>
> At the low end, sure. They're cheap as all hell, easy to remote
> manage, easy to expand, and very efficient. With the right software,
> they are pretty damn nice. Lots of NSPs use the things these days --
> Daemon in the U.K. used to do nothing but BSD boxes last time I
> checked.
>
> Perry
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