[8795] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ascend GRF400
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Fri Apr 25 11:21:22 1997
To: peter@wonderland.org (Peter Galbavy)
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 15:38:36 +0100 (BST)
Cc: deepak@jain.com, salo@msc.edu, jprovo@ma.ultranet.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <01BC515A.F82349E0@peter@wonderland.org> from "Peter Galbavy" at Apr 25, 97 09:27:59 am
From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org>
>
> The interesting products now are the IP/SONET OC3c card and the OC12 card
> that should turn up one day.
They are available, we are using them at the moment and so far not a dropped
packet.
>
> The attraction to us for buying this product is the BSDi OS used at the
> management controller. We have somewhat unusual requirements, including our
> own internal protocol for dynamic routing of dialups, and the availability
> of the BSDi environment behind Ascends new CLI makes this one of the few
> real routers that works off the shelf.
>
Indeed, using gated on this box rules.
> We currently have one in house, and once some SNMP issues are fixed we will
> be able to complete testing and then maybe buy some.
>
> As to who is using them in a production environment, I understand from
> colleagues that a recent "supercore" upgrade that PSI did in NY (where we
> peer with them) was to roll out one or more GRF's. This is of course
> unconfirmed rumour until someone from PSInet speaks up.
>
Cool.
Neil.
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