[63953] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Extreme BlackDiamond
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pekka Savola)
Mon Oct 13 13:37:29 2003
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 20:13:26 +0300 (EEST)
From: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
To: Mans Nilsson <mansaxel@sunet.se>
Cc: Haesu <haesu@towardex.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20031013164645.GF42400@sunet.se>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Mans Nilsson wrote:
> Subject: Re: Extreme BlackDiamond Date: Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 12:19:20PM -0400 Quoting Haesu (haesu@towardex.com):
> >
> > Don't mean to get off-topic... but speaking the Extremes..
> > Has anyone here had luck with doing some BGP stuff with Sumit 48i?
>
> Not beyond lab setups, but yes, they speak BGP. We are about to
> move KTHNOC to a new datacenter shortly, at which we will speak BGP
> to the world using an Extreme switch.
I'd strongly recommend keeping away from "BGP" Extremes "speak".
Especially if you want to it to work. We've seen a lot of problems, like
failures to advertise default routes, getting MP-BGP to work at all, etc.
I think the MP-BGP has been unsolved for, what, at least a year now.
Just don't use extremes as routers, and you will be much, much happier. It
_might_ work in the dumbest, unicast-only setups, but I have a lot of
doubts about anything more complex than that.
We made the mistake of one Extreme here as a router, and that has paid us
back with sweat and tears. We'll be switching it to a Juniper freeing up
soon, and we'll be dancing with joy afterwards.
--
Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds."
Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings
