[16676] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Core router bakeoff?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Warren-Meeks)
Fri May 8 14:06:20 1998
In-Reply-To: <199805072136.RAA00605@jekyll.piermont.com> from "Perry E. Metzger" at "May 7, 98 05:36:45 pm"
To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 11:08:57 +0100 (BST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Joe Warren-Meeks <joew@demon.net>
Hello all,
> 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.
Indeed up until a few months ago all our core routers were OpenBSD
machines, however recently we have started getting GRF's in to
complement them.
And its spelt Demon, as in the guy with the horns 8)
Joe
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