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Re: BGP tables, PC hardware, et al.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Galbavy)
Sat Sep 29 15:58:44 2001

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From: "Peter Galbavy" <peter.galbavy@knowtion.net>
To: "Joel Baker" <lucifer@lightbearer.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 20:59:06 +0100
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> 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.

No real problems on OpenBSD/i386. Very nice with Tyan Thunder KT7 based
boards.

Looking forward to the current round of peer-group code going in.

You want commercially supported BGP, but Cisco/Juniper/whatever. You want
free - use the source, Luke.

Peter


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