[5456] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother))
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Dixon)
Sat Oct 19 04:37:35 1996
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 09:46:30 +0100 (BST)
From: Jim Dixon <jdd@vbc.net>
To: Scott Mace <smace@intt.org>
cc: alex@relcom.eu.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199610190028.TAA00124@metal.err.com>
On Fri, 18 Oct 1996, Scott Mace wrote:
> > - I have 'gdc dump' in gated, and this dump answers to all my question.
> > Where is this command in IOS? How can I determine if Network-A is
> > redistribute from STATIC to RIP (or OSPF) and is it anounced to
> > the neighbour D?
>
> Its fun doing this on a gated box that is default free. ;-)
Agreed. It takes a long time.
> Before the advent of gii you had to do a dump to get the information
> contained in sh ip bgp xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.
>
> Gated IMO is a good thing. The problem is the OS/hardware that it
> runs on top of. I would dred having to install something that needs
> a hard drive to route packets in a light-out POP.
You don't need a hard drive. Use some of the money you saved by not
buying C***o to buy lots of DRAM. Boot from floppy.
Or even buy a flash-based hard drive emulator. Or combine the two
solutions.
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