Re: BGP/4 (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Fri, 6 Dec 1996 12:29:11 -0800 (PST)

Once upon a time Jacob Suter shaped the electrons to say...
>Why not the original router --===[> the Unix Box w/ gated... there you
>have it, a solution in a mid-tower case.

Have you looked at the code of hackd^H^H^H^H^Hgated? It isn't a pretty
thing.

>Its easy, its stable, it works... and whats 64 megs of 60ns EDO going for

That's not what I hear from others, I've heard from a lot of people not very
happy or trusting of gated as a dependable system.

>This is the route we are going to start taking. Right now I am using an
>ER's wan port, but I can see thats gonna be a nightmare at T1, its bad
>enough at 56K.

How much traffic are you pushing through it? The 2eR was never meant to be
a backbone router. It was meant as a pop in a box to avoid the cost of a
router.

-MZ

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