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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Network Routing without Cisco or Juniper?
On Wed 04 Sep 2002 (09:49 +0200), Peter van Dijk wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 03:39:25AM -0400, Deepak Jain wrote: > [snip] > > 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? > > One Dutch ISP that shall remain unnamed (and is not one I work for or > have worked for) deployed Extreme on AMS-IX, with Extreme's BGP > implementation. > > It broke horribly. The Extreme BGP implementation, instead of sending > their peers just their own prefixes, would send each peer *all* > prefixes and then withdraw all but their own networks. However, doing > this with tens of peers at the same time was too much for the Extreme > itself, which died. And another NL ISP - Demon - has used: PC-based routers running gated. At low traffic volumes, they worked very well. A supplier I don't think I'm at liberty to name. When they were good, they were very, very good. But when they were bad they were horrid. Another supplier I don't wish to name. Mostly worked, but crashed if you made even the slighest configuration change. We're now on Junipers and very happy. -- Jim Segrave [email protected]
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