[4219] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MAE-East still no generator
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Partan)
Mon Sep 9 13:40:14 1996
From: Andrew Partan <asp@partan.com>
To: hank@ibm.net.il (Hank Nussbacher)
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 13:35:46 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Chameleon.960908090658.hank@hank.tlv.ibm.net.il> from "Hank Nussbacher" at Sep 8, 96 09:04:42 am
> >> I am moving to ... a Cascade 9000 ...
> >My condolences.
> Care to explain that last comment?
A Cascade as a port concentrator for customer circuits seems to be
OK - at least from the cost viewpoint (until cisco comes out with
higher port density cards). A Cascade in the middle between your
routers seems to add nothing but $$ & tendency towards bad engineering
practices.
--asp@partan.com (Andrew Partan)
