GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother))

John G. Scudder jgs at ieng.com
Fri Oct 18 16:02:07 UTC 1996


At 12:49 AM -0500 10/18/96, Jeremy Porter wrote:
>So did they get all the nasty crashing bugs out of
>Netstar's broken version of gated?

At 8:46 AM -0400 10/18/96, Dima Volodin wrote:
>You said - "gated"? Oh my gawd...

It's very popular in some circles to bash gated; I'm not quite sure why.
I'm seldom able to get specific, substantive criticisms from people who
make comments like these, other than to say that the configuration language
is not obvious and not well-documented (I agree, for now).

Like any piece of software, gated does of course have some bugs in it, but
I haven't seen evidence that it has more or more egregious bugs than other
routing protocol implementations.  And it gets a lot of things right that
some people don't -- for example, it sends withdraws only for routes it has
announced.  I could go on, but I won't.  The bugs are, of course, being
worked on as they are found, just as with any other software.  IMO gated's
stability is pretty decent at this point.  Likewise, it's missing some
features, which are also being worked on.

The proof of the pudding is of course in real-world use.  As I assume most
people on this list know, more than one large, respected backbone operator
uses (or has used until recently) gated as their routing software, for
quite some time.  I've seen no evidence to suggest that gated is
problematic for them; quite the contrary.

Regards,

--John

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