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Re: Packetshaper Replacement

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Zeeff)
Mon Oct 26 08:41:28 1998

To: Brett_Watson@enron.net
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 08:00:15 -0500 (EST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <882566A6.007A85C9.00@pinto.enron.net> from "Brett_Watson@enron.net" at Oct 23, 98 03:19:21 pm
From: jzeeff@verio.net (Jon Zeeff)
Reply-To: jon@zeeff.com


I'd like to see more products using ISL, allowing them to act as 
virtual interfaces on a full blown router.  Ie, provide lots of 
inexpensive interfaces but let routers handle the routing complexity.  

> >>Can anyone please relate their experiences using this
> >>router in an e-bgp environment (# of full views, # of
> >>peers, interoperability with cisco's, etc)?
> >
> >Well, they don't have a high number of ports...mine is a single hssi,
> >single fe, so you're only dealing with a few views at most.  We've got a
> >full eBGP view from uu.net on it, as well as an iBGP peer with our cisco
> >taking our other connections.  It handles it quite well...never seems to
> >have broken a sweat CPU-wise that I can tell.
> 
> does xedia have all the bgp knobs such as communities, filtering, route-map
> like functions, and all?
> 
> -brett
> 
> 
> 
> 


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