On Thu, May 07, 1998 at 06:45:46PM -0700, Jason L. Weisberger wrote:
On Thu, 7 May 1998, Karl Denninger wrote:
Well, the GRF has its good and bad points. I've tested one rather extensively, although I admit it was some time (~8-9 months) ago.
I've been rather upset with Ascend over their lack of reaction to the bug in the Pipe 150 that had it publishing ARP statments for every ip address that went by its ethernet interface. Have you found their other products to be better supported and safer to fire and forget?
jlw
Well, I got rather, uh, pissed at the MAX 4000s desire to publish both a /32 and a /29 route for all OSPF announcements on dial interfaces (which went unaddressed in the code for literally months) - particularly troublesome when you consider the limited RAM in those boxes (and the consequence of running out of it - it would just drop the OSPF process entirely!), not to mention a direct violation of the OSPF specifications and the cause of many complaints from other equipment which this generated. I've heard they have cleaned up their software act in the last several months; other than P130s as customer routers for DS1 users (of which we have a boatload deployed) I have zero *current* operational experience with their equipment, so my knowledge base on them is ~6-9 months old. Then again, I'm a SOB when it comes to standards complience, especially when lack thereof breaks something that we *NEED* around here (such as reliable service :-). I still don't like CISCO's RAS implementations, but I have to say this - for all their warts, including some business policies that I consider nothing short of INSANE, their router hardware and IOS still win the prize for uptime in my experience. A real example from our core: XXXXXXX-CoreX uptime is 38 weeks, 1 day, 7 hours, 49 minutes System restarted by power-on That's pretty typical around here; the last "power on" was to do routine maintenance on that particular device. :-) -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - Serving Chicagoland and Wisconsin http://www.mcs.net/ | T1's from $600 monthly / All Lines K56Flex/DOV | NEW! Corporate ISDN Prices dropped by up to 50%! Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| EXCLUSIVE NEW FEATURE ON ALL PERSONAL ACCOUNTS Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | *SPAMBLOCK* Technology now included at no cost