At 12:49 AM -0500 10/18/96, Jeremy Porter wrote:
So did they get all the nasty crashing bugs out of Netstar's broken version of gated?
At 8:46 AM -0400 10/18/96, Dima Volodin wrote:
You said - "gated"? Oh my gawd...
It's very popular in some circles to bash gated; I'm not quite sure why. I'm seldom able to get specific, substantive criticisms from people who make comments like these, other than to say that the configuration language is not obvious and not well-documented (I agree, for now). Like any piece of software, gated does of course have some bugs in it, but I haven't seen evidence that it has more or more egregious bugs than other routing protocol implementations. And it gets a lot of things right that some people don't -- for example, it sends withdraws only for routes it has announced. I could go on, but I won't. The bugs are, of course, being worked on as they are found, just as with any other software. IMO gated's stability is pretty decent at this point. Likewise, it's missing some features, which are also being worked on. The proof of the pudding is of course in real-world use. As I assume most people on this list know, more than one large, respected backbone operator uses (or has used until recently) gated as their routing software, for quite some time. I've seen no evidence to suggest that gated is problematic for them; quite the contrary. Regards, --John -- John Scudder email: jgs@ieng.com Internet Engineering Group, LLC phone: (313) 669-8800 122 S. Main, Suite 280 fax: (313) 669-8661 Ann Arbor, MI 41804 www: http://www.ieng.com