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Re: Ascend GRF

  • From: Alex Rubenstein
  • Date: Wed Jun 11 14:26:53 1997

>From what I have seen (disclaimer: I have not used either) and heard (same
disclaimer), the case is the the GRF is turly a piece.


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
>