Network Routing without Cisco or Juniper?

Thu Sep 5 12:10:09 UTC 2002

On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Deepak Jain wrote:

>  It has been a long time since I have seen this thread hashed out,
>  so I figured I'd bring it up publicly.
>
>  Is anyone comfortable using (in a network with > 5 routers) any
>  non-Cisco or non-Juniper routers for BGP speaking? (Zebra/Gated
>  boxes only count if customer traffic is carried through the device).
>
I'm currently running Ciscos at the edge, but Extremes in the core for
our datacenter hosting - iBGP only, mind.
The Extremes are a little odd, in that one refuses to talk BGP at all
(!) but other than that I've not had any real problems.

Unless I had a specific reason not to use "known kit" (read: Juniper
or Cisco) at the edge, I'd probably stick with the usual - but that's
more out of familiarity than genuine worries.

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