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Re: using gated for multi-home BGP

  • From: Michael Heller
  • Date: Mon Oct 18 14:49:34 1999 
 This was just the
>primary reason why we dropped out the customers from the PC a few years
>ago. Another reason was the stability - the piece of hardware withouth the
>disks (Cisco) seems to be just more stable than PC with (often) badly
>designed fans, power supply and rotating disks...

I've played with some Torrent/Ericcson equipment.  They had the foresight
to utilize pcmcia flash devices as the stoage on their pc-based RSP.  Very
nice stuff.  Its been a while since I've played with it, however.
Michael Heller
Sr. Systems Engineer
Earthweb, Inc.
212.448.4175
mikeh@earthweb.com