Packetshaper Replacement

Mon Oct 26 13:00:15 UTC 1998

I'd like to see more products using ISL, allowing them to act as 
virtual interfaces on a full blown router.  Ie, provide lots of 
inexpensive interfaces but let routers handle the routing complexity.  

> >>Can anyone please relate their experiences using this
> >>router in an e-bgp environment (# of full views, # of
> >>peers, interoperability with cisco's, etc)?
> >
> >Well, they don't have a high number of ports...mine is a single hssi,
> >single fe, so you're only dealing with a few views at most.  We've got a
> >full eBGP view from uu.net on it, as well as an iBGP peer with our cisco
> >taking our other connections.  It handles it quite well...never seems to
> >have broken a sweat CPU-wise that I can tell.
> 
> does xedia have all the bgp knobs such as communities, filtering, route-map
> like functions, and all?
> 
> -brett
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