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Re: BGP tables, PC hardware, et al.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Baker)
Fri Sep 28 17:45:15 2001

Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 15:36:46 -0600
From: Joel Baker <lucifer@lightbearer.com>
To: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <20010928153646.A8768@lightbearer.com>
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On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 02:31:29PM -0700, Dan Hollis wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Joel Baker wrote:
> > Zebra: OSPF is twitchy, BGP is either great or takes > 1 hour to converge
> > a full table, with no clear reason why, and it does not support anything
> > but Linux/Intel sanely, yet.
> 
> Maybe im just lucky but the only problems ive had with zebra so far is
> with equal cost multipath. Everything else works great.

On Linux/Intel, it works fairly well.

On Solaris/Sparc, it does well to compile. At all. Much less run. Much less
run stably.
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