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Re: (ASCEND) BGP 4 ? (fwd)
On Tue, Nov 25, 1997 at 07:00:08PM -0500, Tom Easterday wrote:
> At 05:31 PM 11/25/97 -0600, Karl Denninger wrote:
> >
> >The GRF's route processor *IS* gated. Its not a permutation, it is the
> >real thing.
> >
> No, that is not quite true. The base is gated (3.5.x) but there
> have been many modifications by Ascend (and IEng) to implement missing,
> and non-functional features (hmm, non-functional features....bugs?).
> It is actually a permutation in many ways.
I don't consider bug fixes to be permutations :-) :-)
> >The way the GRF does this is rather cute, actually (including the way the
> >routes are picked up from the core table and distributed to the cards, etc).
> >
> Cute is such a frivalous word, I would say it is an engineering marvel.
> Ok, that might be pushing it considering my bias' ;-)
>
> Tom
Actually, I consider it "cute", given that this kind of architecture was
something that I wrote about oh, what was it now - four years back?
Yeah, I think it was somewhere around that time. 1993ish and change, and
actually, that was the second go-around - the first was the float of the
idea to the Incredibly Bad Machine people (:-) two years prior to THAT
because I expected to need that kind of switching capability at a place
that I was at the time employed (and over which they had a strangle-hold
supply contract).
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