One big down point on the GRF's imho is that in order to change anything with them you have to run a gdcreconfig, which stops and starts gated, effectively taking down the routing for a period of time, whereas you can add/remove a static route from a cisco and not bring down the routing.
Back the truck up, where did you get this? If I want to change gated.conf I need to run gdc reconfig after I am done. This DOES NOT restart gated. If you want to restart gatec then do a gdc restart or gdc stop then gdc start. I would suggest you work with the GRF and then say what it can or cant do. It would be almost impossible to work with a box that would restart every time you wanted to change the configs.
I seem to have made a mistake in terms here. gdcreconfig doesn't *restart* gated, but it does/did disrupt it when ran before. I haven't messed with a GRF in about 4 months or so now, so they may have changed this. I have had a couple of personal mails as well as mails to this list that have suggested this.
GRF's also take about 5-10 minutes to reboot, which can be annoying.
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