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BTW: There are Foundry and Extreme related mailing lists in the same location as a few other vendor lists. http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/extreme-nsp http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo for all puck lists, including other router/switch vendors. enjoy, - jared On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 08:01:50PM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Pekka Savola wrote: > > > Just don't use extremes as routers, and you will be much, much happier. It > > _might_ work in the dumbest, unicast-only setups, but I have a lot of > > doubts about anything more complex than that. > > I think you're being too pessimistic. For instance, some of the largest > LAN parties had Extreme boxen as core equipment (Dreamhack for instance, > 4500 computers) and their ISP (where I work) had Extreme routers for a > larger part of its national core/distribution network. > > We run BGP as well. It works for what we need it for. We use network > statements and talk BGP with customers. > > With EW7.1.0 they solved most of our issues, we're now going ISIS as well. > > As with all equipment, try everything you want to do and see if it does it > well. If you're doing a large network buildout you might save a LOT of > money buy bying intermediate stuff (like Extreme) instead of coing the > hard-core way (Juniper/GSR). > > Yes, GSRs are better at routing but they lack L2 capability and it's a > very expensive (and lousy unless you have Engine3 cards) GE plattform. > > -- > Mikael Abrahamsson email: [email protected] -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from [email protected] clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.
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