[51702] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network Routing without Cisco or Juniper?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Evans)
Thu Sep 5 08:11:34 2002
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 13:10:09 +0100 (BST)
From: Patrick Evans <pre@PRE.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:
> It has been a long time since I have seen this thread hashed out,
> so I figured I'd bring it up publicly.
>
> Is anyone comfortable using (in a network with > 5 routers) any
> non-Cisco or non-Juniper routers for BGP speaking? (Zebra/Gated
> boxes only count if customer traffic is carried through the device).
>
I'm currently running Ciscos at the edge, but Extremes in the core for
our datacenter hosting - iBGP only, mind.
The Extremes are a little odd, in that one refuses to talk BGP at all
(!) but other than that I've not had any real problems.
Unless I had a specific reason not to use "known kit" (read: Juniper
or Cisco) at the edge, I'd probably stick with the usual - but that's
more out of familiarity than genuine worries.
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