North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Ascend GRF
PSI used to feed our site with a Cisco 7xxx and changed to a GRF400. The OpenROUTE Networks RBX250 router we use to talk to it had no problems with either. Actual packet throughput appears to be improved since the router was swapped, which I assume was the reason for the replacement. I haven't noticed a substantial difference in the speed with which the advertisements roll in. Either upstream box pumped out the BGP advertisements when the line first comes up at about 60% of the T1. Neither box pushes harder than that. There were some problems (non-BGP) when PSI first tried to activate the GRF, but those appear to have been resolved. At 07:58 AM 6/11/97 -0500, Peter Leppik wrote: >I've been hearing conflicting stories about the Ascend GRF lately. >Cisco claims that it doesn't really work as advertised in "realistic >networks," but Ascend says this is because Cisco's routers melt down >when the GRF feeds them routing table updates, so the GRF has to be >throttled back to work in a mixed environment. > >Does anybody have any real experience here? Any information, pointers, >anecdotes, or wild rumors would help. > >Thanks, > -Peter > > Daniel Senie mailto:[email protected] Sr. Staff Engineer http://www.openroute.com/ OpenROUTE Networks, Inc. (a wholly owned subsidiary of Proteon, Inc.)
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