[16672] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Core router bakeoff?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Skrobola)
Fri May 8 13:55:18 1998
To: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org>
cc: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 08 May 1998 12:37:10 +0100.
<199805081137.MAA07032@genesis.DOMINO.ORG>
Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 11:20:42 -0400
From: Rob Skrobola <rjs@ans.net>
>Subject: Re: Core router bakeoff?
>AFAIK there is no such thing as a PIPE-150, and if you have proxy
>arp switched on then you might see this behavour. You did read
>the manual ? :-)
>
>I use the GRF-400 and it works well, Although I agree that Ascends current
>support management is completely broken. As for Ethernet, in my experience
>if you push anything near to 100M you should really spend the extra cash
>on FDDI, it works far better. The POS card for the GRF works excellently,
>you can use it as a frame relay switch, however Ascend manage to do
>stupid things like break your ability to restrict AS annoucements via
>AS path. sigh.
Neil,
We saw a rough limit of about 45k pps through the grf oc3 pos
card. Have you seen better, or has it not been an issue for traffic
pattern reasons or something?
RobS
