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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Ascend GRF
> > > 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. > I'm using a GRF talking to a CISCO 7K over a DS-3 on ATM using full BGP4 and route reflection and we've had no problems, other than Ascends subtle changed to gated which are a little confusing. The router is quite spectacular, Our backbone is 155M based and so far the GRF hasn't had a single problem in over 3 weeks of testing. The only thing that pisses me off about Ascend is that the documentation could be better. Cheers, Neil. -- Neil J. McRae - Alive and Kicking. D O M I N O [email protected] NetBSD/sparc - 100% SpF (Solaris protection Factor) Free the daemon in your <A HREF="http://www.NetBSD.ORG/";>Computer!</A>
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