Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour

Sun Aug 2 22:30:46 UTC 2015

>> so it is heavily routed using L3 on the core 'switches'?  makes a lot
>> of sense.
> Lots of switches will happily forward layer 3 packets.

and a lot of so-called switches will happily *route* at L3, which is i
think the point.  in this case, heavily subnetting a LAN, it makes a lot
of sense.

otoh, i did not believe in the fad of using 65xxs at the bgp global
edge.  while it was temporarily cheap, two years later not a lot of folk
had that many boats which needed anchoring.

randy