[65331] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OC3 Router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Armstrong)
Fri Nov 21 20:33:50 2003
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 20:13:48 -0500
From: Dan Armstrong <dan@beanfield.com>
To: Chris Strandt <strandtc@liquidweb.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
I know this is not relevant, but the humour is perfectly apropos as a
reply.
This was the best "manager" call the support line of the day story:
<abridged for clarity>
"We need an OC-192".
"My god, why?"
"We need to be able to support at least 192 simultaneous users to our
website"
"Uh Huh..... well......
:-)
Dan.
Chris Strandt wrote:
> I was hoping that someone could point me in the right direction.
>
> I'm looking for a cisco border router as a backup for our existing.
>
> We have a 7206VXR with NPE400. The only thing we have in the router is
> a OC3c POS card on one side and a multimode Gig-Ethernet on the other.
> We are not doing BGP with this router (upstream is annoucing for us).
> Is there a vendor who can tell us the minimum we need to do this for
> emergency situations, or someone on the list who can recommend a cisco
> solution that can meet these requirments?
>
> Thanks,
> -Chris Strandt
> Liquid Web Inc.
