Plethora of UUnet outages and instabilities

Tue Jul 1 19:41:24 UTC 1997

On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Nathan Stratton wrote:
> I am happy with [the GRF] we have 14 in our network right now. Yes they have
> some small problems, but Ascend GRF tech support is the best I have seen.
> We have some new Cisco stuff on the way, and in a few weeks will know if
> we are going to ditch GRF and with with Cisco. So far we are still 100%
> cisco free, but that may change in a few weeks.

Maybe they should send some of those tech support people over to work
on the Ascend Max code. 9 weeks now of having a totally reproducable
routing loss bug into them, and they won't even bother returning email
or call-backs to me anymore. The previous code revisions made the
boxes reboot at random times. We picked the lesser of two evils..