[62846] in North American Network Operators' Group
Foundry BigIron series
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Will Yardley)
Tue Sep 23 14:55:17 2003
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 11:54:46 -0700
From: william+nanog@hq.dreamhost.com (Will Yardley)
To: nanog@merit.edu
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We're considering switching to Foundry BigIrons (probably the 4000, as
opposed to Cisco 6500 series switches. We're currently using 7206VXRs).
Anyone have opinions (on or off list) on this product? Looking through
the archives, I don't notice any discussions of this since about 2001 [1].
(http://www.foundrynet.com/products/l3backbone/bigiron/BigIronx00Datasheet.html)
I'm mostly interested in its BGP implementation, as the boxes would be
handling our core routing via BGP.
(I haven't noticed anyone complaining about BGP problems in the past
year or so); also opinions on the CLI would be helpful (I'm told it's
95% identical to IOS's CLI). The CLI was another complaint in the thread
cited below, so I'm curious if it has improved since 2001.
I'd be interested in hearing about the comparable Riverstone boxes as
well.
[1] thread starting at
http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/2002-09/msg00050.html
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