Core router bakeoff?

Fri May 8 03:11:23 UTC 1998

"Jason L. Weisberger" writes:
> On Thu, 7 May 1998, Karl Denninger wrote:
> > Well, the GRF has its good and bad points.  I've tested one rather
> > extensively, although I admit it was some time (~8-9 months) ago.
> 
> I've been rather upset with Ascend over their lack of reaction to the bug
> in the Pipe 150 that had it publishing ARP statments for every ip address
> that went by its ethernet interface. Have you found their other products
> to be better supported and safer to fire and forget?

The GRF started as a product from another company (Netstar?) that
Ascend bought, and it has a different software base.

That said, I have no personal experience with the GRF and don't know
if it works well. It just looks neat from what I can tell.

.pm