[7008] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: withdrawal propagation (was E.E. Times?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Wed Jan 15 11:29:01 1997
To: "John W. Stewart III" <jstewart@metro.isi.edu>
cc: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org>, nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 15 Jan 1997 10:58:50 EST."
<199701151558.AA27885@metro.isi.edu>
From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org>
Reply-To: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 16:21:56 +0000
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997 10:58:50 EST
"John W. Stewart III" <jstewart@metro.isi.edu> wrote:
> so talk to your provider about deploying it, don't bash
> cisco who has already rolled new images
sigh.
>
> and on the point of providers, do you really think they
> would continue to run code that causes them problems
> (whether cisco calls it a "bug" or an "optimization")?
> if providers thought it was a bug, then they would have
> anxiously awaited an announcement for an image that had
> the fix so that they could deploy it
>
You'd be amazed. Doing a router upgrade isn't a simple quick 5 second
thing to do. That has to be planned, and if people see it as bugfix
they are more likely to upgrade.
I used to keep 1 weeks worth of BGP4 logs for all of my employers
peers, now I can't keep 1 hours because of all the _crap_ I recieve
from their routers.
Regards,
Neil.
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