On Mon, 25 Aug 1997 21:50:46 -0700 (PDT) "joseph j. kim" <jokim@ipcom.com> wrote:
i don't understand all of the mail comparing the two, there is really no comparison. the GSR blows the GRF away. there is an order of magnitude difference in the aggregate b/w supported between the two correct? 4Mb/s vs 40Mb/s. Also, not that I know anything about the GRF but I think Cisco claims that 7500 real-world performance is much better than the GRF400.
You have a GSR in production then? I have a GRF in production with ATM, FDDI and Ethernet, we use it to talk to Nortel Passport Switches and other GRFs. We also have a GRF plugged in to the FDDI Waveswitches at the LINX and yes we've had a few problems with the box, mostly on the ATM side, but Ascend are attentive and produce fixes and new features regularly. I'm looking forward to the new 1.4 software which looks good. Also because it runs gated, routeing with the box is very good, I've had no BGP4 problems with this, other than I wish they would release the gated as a seperate software product so I can run it on my non-GRF routers.
maybe someone can post some performance numbers.
I believe the Tolly group did some [not that I'd trust anything to come out of them]. Regards, Neil. -- Neil J. McRae. Alive and Kicking. Domino: In the glow of the night. neil@DOMINO.ORG NetBSD/sparc: 100% SpF (Solaris protection Factor) Free the daemon in your <A HREF="http://www.NetBSD.ORG/">computer!</A>