[52372] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: layer 3 switch debate
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Fri Sep 27 09:04:19 2002
To: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@opaltelecom.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 27 Sep 2002 08:54:03 BST."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 09:02:50 -0400
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On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 08:54:03 BST, "Stephen J. Wilcox" said:
> Most commonly seems to be interoperability, the switches do their own job fine
> in their own isolated environment but they cant act as a "ISP router".. in my
> experience then tend to have odd bugs and behave slightly unexpectedly when say
> for example routing OSPF or BGP.
As opposed to enterprise-class routers, which have their own odd bugs. ;)
> Altho this is probably a chicken and egg - if
> more people tried to use them perhaps the vendors would fix the code!
IOS 12 isn't bug-free.
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