Re: Alcatel-Lucent

[piotr sawicki <piotr.sawicki.pl () gmail com>]

> The worst thing in it was bgp proto .. Router was unable to withstand 
> 20+ peering sessions , most of that outgoing bgp session to customers 
> , a few peerings , and only 1v2 incoming upstream providers
> When there was instability/surge in bgp updates , router was able to 
> break itself tcp sess. Dwnld bgp table (150,000prefix) took 2h or more 
> ...
> Things done in hardware should be working although ( bridge .. , maybe 
> label switching , vpls )  Tech support is very weak. Expect problems 
> with interoperability .
> Sorry to say that  .   It was 3+ years time ago , maybe they improved 
> themself .. :)

Hi,

I must say we had very old timos 2.0R17 , as you now use 8.0 I guess ..
As most of my complains is against software , this may be improved - i 
hope it is :)
Hardware is solid,  'hard to kill'
Sorry for a bit preliminary assumptions about 7750SR platform .

// regards PiotrSawicki.