[38204] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: experience with BGP on Extreme's Alpine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Disher)
Wed May 30 19:19:20 2001
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 16:20:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jonathan Disher <jdisher@ipix.com>
To: Arnold Nipper <arnold@nipper.de>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Thu, 31 May 2001, Arnold Nipper wrote:
>
> I know ExtremeNetwork's high position in L2, but don't have any idea how they
> perform on L3. Now an Alpine3804 might the right solution for a customer as
> he needs a loadbalancer, switch and router which also should do BGP.
>
> Any experience and hints welcome!
Personally, I'm a purist. I say use something like an Alteon AD3 or
ACESwitch 180e for a loadbalancer, $favorite_vendor_kit for router, and
the alpine for a switch.
-j
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