[51665] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network Routing without Cisco or Juniper?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.A. Terranson)
Wed Sep 4 04:59:22 2002
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 03:59:58 -0500 (CDT)
From: "J.A. Terranson" <measl@mfn.org>
To: Deepak Jain <deepak@jain.com>
Cc: "Nanog@Merit. Edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <GPEOJKGHAMKFIOMAGMDIAEPBODAA.deepak@jain.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Deepak Jain wrote:
> Boxes like Foundry, Extreme, Redback and many others all talk BGP
> (at least to a first approximation) but is their lack of use in
> the core/edge/CPE a lack of scale, stability, performance or just
> interest?
With Extreme, it's certainly (in my experience only) a matter of
horrific stability in their routing engine: great switches, truly
scary as routers. The thought of BGP on Extreme is almost comedic,
considering I'm afraid of their RIP...
Yours,
J.A. Terranson
