PSI used to feed our site with a Cisco 7xxx and changed to a GRF400. The OpenROUTE Networks RBX250 router we use to talk to it had no problems with either. Actual packet throughput appears to be improved since the router was swapped, which I assume was the reason for the replacement. I haven't noticed a substantial difference in the speed with which the advertisements roll in. Either upstream box pumped out the BGP advertisements when the line first comes up at about 60% of the T1. Neither box pushes harder than that. There were some problems (non-BGP) when PSI first tried to activate the GRF, but those appear to have been resolved. At 07:58 AM 6/11/97 -0500, Peter Leppik wrote:
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.
Thanks, -Peter
Daniel Senie mailto:dts@openroute.com Sr. Staff Engineer http://www.openroute.com/ OpenROUTE Networks, Inc. (a wholly owned subsidiary of Proteon, Inc.)