[51573] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: building a better route reflector
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Fri Aug 30 03:10:01 2002
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"from dalph@hush.com at Aug 29, 2002 01:23:25 pm"
To: dalph@hush.com
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 08:11:40 +0100 (BST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: neil@DOMINO.ORG (Neil J. McRae)
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>
>
> Running two routing protocols is too much of a hassle. I think I would
> rather use static routes, and synchronize routers using rsync, diff, and
> patch. Our NOC has several 286s running Xenix that could act as servers
> for this.
>
> This would eliminate the hassle of running OSPF, ISIS, or RIP. Does
> anyone know of a Tier-1 for under $30/Mbps that would run something like
> this instead of BGP? I'd love it if we didn't need any routing protocols.
>
Why don't we dump IP routeing and have one big supernet on one big
bridge peice of ethernet? Wouldn't life be simple!
Regards,
Neil.
--
Neil J. McRae - Alive and Kicking
neil@DOMINO.ORG
