On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 03:02:36PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
Take a look inside a Juniper router -- you should be pleasantly surprised by the very standard CompacPCI processor board you'll find inside of it that, among a few other things, does the route processing.... and it's running mostly stock FreeBSD no less.... even with a root prompt you can get at!
Since several people have brought it up, I work with Junipers on a daily basis. They have done some good things, and seem to have an upper hand in routing performance when compared to Cisco's. That said, I don't think they are immune to my complaints, and in fact since they are using a lot of standard parts you'd think they might be doing lots more than they are... -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org Systems Engineer - Internetworking Engineer - CCIE 3440 Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org, www.tmbg.org