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Re: layer 3 switch debate

  • From: Valdis.Kletnieks
  • Date: Fri Sep 27 09:05:47 2002

On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 08:54:03 BST, "Stephen J. Wilcox" said:

> Most commonly seems to be interoperability, the switches do their own job fine
> in their own isolated environment but they cant act as a "ISP router".. in my
> experience then tend to have odd bugs and behave slightly unexpectedly when say
> for example routing OSPF or BGP.

As opposed to enterprise-class routers, which have their own odd bugs. ;)

>                                   Altho this is probably a chicken and egg - if
> more people tried to use them perhaps the vendors would fix the code!

IOS 12 isn't bug-free.

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