Software router state of the art

Mon Jul 28 21:30:34 UTC 2008

Rev. Jeffrey Paul wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:08:32PM +0100, michael.dillon at bt.com wrote:
>   
>> But if you want free suggestions, then you'll have to put up with
>> half answers, vendor fanboys, and the usual ruckus of NANOG.
>>
>>     
>
> As much as I hate to contribute to the problem, I'd like to point out
> that the barrage of useless, off-topic, empty traffic on this list in
> the last week is, in my estimation, quite a bit above the "usual" ruckus
> of NANOG.
>
> While I'm not one to thunk down the rulebook, can you all collectively
> knock it off?
>
> Cheers,
> -jp
I haven't followed the other threads in the last week, but I don't think 
that a discussion of routers is off topic.  While Michael's opinion was 
expressed in a fairly tongue-in-cheek method as would be required by his 
response, I don't see anything offtopic, perhaps just hotly worded.

Anderw