Granted I've never worked outside academia but the me3400 is otherwise a cost effective gig-e demarc for very simple bgp multihoming. They have made a strategic decision to not implement a simple software update support RFC4893 [it has been 4 years] and to set an artificial price point on entry. Fine, that is their choice. There are other vendors offering 4 byte ASN in simliar products at or near this price point and we'll probably have to move to them. -Michael On 8/9/2011 10:38 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
On 09/08/2011 15:45, Michael Hare wrote:
While attempting to focus on ISPs there is still [unbelievably] a vendor support issue. You may consider this a procurement failure, but the fact remains that some products [Cisco me3400e] have yet to implement support.
the me3400 is a metro core ethernet switch with L3 extensions. It's not intended as a border router. If you use the wrong tool for the job...
Nick