On Wed 04 Sep 2002 (09:49 +0200), Peter van Dijk wrote:
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 03:39:25AM -0400, Deepak Jain wrote: [snip]
Boxes like Foundry, Extreme, Redback and many others all talk BGP (at least to a first approximation) but is their lack of use in the core/edge/CPE a lack of scale, stability, performance or just interest?
One Dutch ISP that shall remain unnamed (and is not one I work for or have worked for) deployed Extreme on AMS-IX, with Extreme's BGP implementation.
It broke horribly. The Extreme BGP implementation, instead of sending their peers just their own prefixes, would send each peer *all* prefixes and then withdraw all but their own networks. However, doing this with tens of peers at the same time was too much for the Extreme itself, which died.
And another NL ISP - Demon - has used: PC-based routers running gated. At low traffic volumes, they worked very well. A supplier I don't think I'm at liberty to name. When they were good, they were very, very good. But when they were bad they were horrid. Another supplier I don't wish to name. Mostly worked, but crashed if you made even the slighest configuration change. We're now on Junipers and very happy. -- Jim Segrave jes@nl.demon.net