Re: Core router bakeoff?

If you're seriously doing this you need to get on-staff a REAL routing engineer who has done this in the past and knows what the hell he or she is doing. They're rare and pricey, but you need one.

Contrary to popular belief, national networks are not simple to set up in a way which will insure that they have maximum survivability and performance.

Naw, they just need a copy of Global Internet Routing for Dummies, the Metropolitan Area Ethernet Starter Kit and ISP in a Box. -- Jason Weisberger Chief Technology Officer SoftAware, Inc. - 310/305-0275 "Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees." -Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson