Re: experience with BGP on Extreme's Alpine

[Jonathan Disher <jdisher () ipix com>]

On Thu, 31 May 2001, Arnold Nipper wrote:

> I know ExtremeNetwork's high position in L2, but don't have any idea how they
> perform on L3. Now an Alpine3804 might the right solution for a customer as
> he needs a loadbalancer, switch and router which also should do BGP.
>
> Any experience and hints welcome!

Personally, I'm a purist.  I say use something like an Alteon AD3 or
ACESwitch 180e for a loadbalancer, $favorite_vendor_kit for router, and
the alpine for a switch.

-j

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