Networking Pearl Harbor in the Making

Mon Nov 7 16:44:10 UTC 2005

On Nov 7, 2005, at 11:26 AM, Eric Germann wrote:

>
> Looks like vendor J is going to benefit from the issues laid out for
> Vendor C.
>
> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/110405-juniper-cisco-hacker.html
>

Cisco, Juniper, or vendor "X".   We all benefit by having "genetic  
diversity" in our routing/switching systems.  I have been bit hard,  
as many of us on this thread have been bit, by bugs in vendor  
software/hardware.  Support your IETF!  Don't use proprietary  
protocols and insist on interoperability.  If you have the  
wherewithal install at least two different vendors for your critical  
services.  Then make them play nice together!

There, now I feel much better... glad to get that off my chest.

And yes, I actually have put my money where my mouth is and built a  
stable and efficient dual core with Cisco and Juniper running MPLS  
together.  To be fair I was a bit wimpy about installing some of the  
latest greatest tricks though <grin>.

Regards,

Blaine