Re: IXP hardware

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at gitoyen.net>]

[I take the liberty, since it was public info, to Cc: the Zebra
mailing list but, please, Zebra people, we all know Zebra works,
refrain from flaming. The engineers on the Afnog mailing list are
probably interested by facts, not by flames.]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 03:29:37AM -0800,
 Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote 
 a message of 8 lines which said:

> > Good lord! A Cisco 7xxx just to manage 50 BGP peers? We can have much
> > more with any PC (and software like Zebra <URL:http://www.zebra.org/>),
> 
> as mo once said, can we please not discuss building reliable
> infrastructure with home appliances?  zebra in particular is
> known to fall over dead under production circumstances.

Sorry, Randy, I appreciate the work you do but I respectfully
disagree. This is pure FUD and name-calling. Many operators run Zebra
routers or route servers in production environments.


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