Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother))

["Neil J. McRae" <neil () easynet net>]

On Fri, 18 Oct 1996 11:35:35 -0400 (EDT) 
 dvv () sprint net (Dima Volodin) alleged:

> Gated would dump core like crazy and lose routes and adjacencies 5
> years ago and it does the same now. Well, on the second thought, I
> don't think there's any real reason to bitch about it - all the other
> free reference stuff (sendmail, inn, etc, etc. Even 4.4) is plagued
> with the same problems. And everybody is kind of accustomed to the
> status quo. As of data structures - I remember there was a course on data
> structures on my first university year. And you know what? I haven't
> seen anything new since then - gated or no gated.

Absolute crap. gated does not dump core and does not lose routes, certainly
not on my routers which peer at the LINX, with BTnet, and RAIN. What I have
to do is mail other people constantly because the cisco gets confused about
subnets and the like:

        gated[7075] version R3_6Alpha_2 memory dump on battlezone.router.easynet
.fr at Fri Oct 18 19:42:51 1996
                BSDI BSD/OS 2.1 Kernel #2: Wed Aug 28 16:41:03 BST 1996
    neil () galaxians router EASYNET NET:/usr/src/sys/compile/ROUTER-FR
                Started at Tue Oct  8 22:19:22 1996



> Karl Marx's soul to the soul of Friedrich Engels: "Oh yes. But the idea
> was b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l..."
>
> Dima

Sprint still living in the dark ages as per usual. 

Regards,
Neil.
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