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Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother))
From: Curtis Villamizar <curtis () ans net>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 10:12:57 -0400
In message <199610181535.LAA16775 () mercury int sprintlink net>, Dima Volodin wri tes:
alex () relcom eu net writes:>Subject: Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) >From: dvv () sprint net (Dima Volodin) >You said - "gated"? Oh my gawd... I agree. Oh my gawd, someone is using one of the most efficient and reliable pieces of routing code around. What a really great idea. There are other smart router vendors who use various route and policy storage data structures from gated. Oh my gawd. Some smart router vendors are implementing dynamic non-intrusive policy config on their routers this year. Gated had that 4 1/2 years ago. Oh my gawd. Etc etc... RobSGated 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.
Gated was the most reliable routing platform we had when the NSS were retired. It wasn't perfect in that we still had an unresolved assertion error occasionally but it either ran and pointed everything in the right direction or asserted, dumped, and restarted. The alternates can't seem to get routes to consistently point in the right direction and so I'd have to say are much worse. I'll take a 5 minute assertion and recovery once a week over a persistent route loop or black hole. I don't know of any commercial router which gets the routes and next hop right as consistently as gated does, that includes both Cisco and Bay. The fact that gated could accept complex routing configurations and flawlessly reconfigure usually in under a minute is something commercial routers still have not matched. wrt - conf syntax. My preference is for a structured context free grammar that I can edit or inspect with a powerful text editor if I need to rather than a line oriented command interface primarily intended to be typed in one line at a time. That's just a personal preference. Curtis - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Randolph C. Nicklas (Oct 16)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Jeremy Porter (Oct 17)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Dima Volodin (Oct 18)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Neil J. McRae (Oct 18)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) JDF (Oct 18)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Rob Skrobola (Oct 18)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) alex (Oct 18)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Dima Volodin (Oct 18)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Neil J. McRae (Oct 18)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Dmitry Volodin (Oct 18)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Curtis Villamizar (Oct 21)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) alex (Oct 18)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Bill Fenner (Oct 18)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Nathan Stratton (Oct 18)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Paul A Vixie (Oct 20)
- Netstar GigaRouter [was: Re: Cisco as Big Brother (Was Re: Cisco's AIP vs HSSI)] John G. Scudder (Oct 16)
- Re: Netstar GigaRouter [was: Re: Cisco as Big Brother (Was Re: Cisco's AIP vs HSSI)] Patrick J. Chicas (Oct 16)
- Re: Netstar GigaRouter [was: Re: Cisco as Big Brother (Was Re: Cisco's AIP vs HSSI)] John G. Scudder (Oct 17)
- Re: Cisco as Big Brother (Was Re: Cisco's AIP vs HSSI) Peter Galbavy (Oct 16)
- Re: Cisco as Big Brother (Was Re: Cisco's AIP vs HSSI) Neil J. McRae (Oct 17)
- Re: Cisco as Big Brother (Was Re: Cisco's AIP vs HSSI) Avi Freedman (Oct 16)