Re: Network Routing without Cisco or Juniper?

From: J.A. Terranson (no email)
Date: Wed Sep 04 2002 - 04:59:58 EDT


On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Deepak Jain wrote:

> Boxes like Foundry, Extreme, Redback and many others all talk BGP
> (at least to a first approximation) but is their lack of use in
> the core/edge/CPE a lack of scale, stability, performance or just
> interest?

With Extreme, it's certainly (in my experience only) a matter of
horrific stability in their routing engine: great switches, truly
scary as routers. The thought of BGP on Extreme is almost comedic,
considering I'm afraid of their RIP...

Yours,

J.A. Terranson








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