Re: (ASCEND) GRF: up to it? (fwd)

[Andy Walden <andy@ns2.mtco.com>]

On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Matt Holdrege wrote:

> At 02:31 PM 11/26/97 -0800, MegaZone wrote:
> >Once upon a time Andy Walden shaped the electrons to say...
> >>Yep. I have one too. Actually was kinda thinking of using it for that
> >>until Ascend corrected me, the TNT is not a router. Plus, it doesn't do
> >>BGP.
> >
> >If it is not a router, why the hell do they sell things like the FrameLine
> >card which are good for nothing except T1 connections?  You do need to 
> >route them, and do it efficiently.  And they claim you can have mutltuple
> >FL cards in a chassis...
> 
> The TNT is indeed a router. And a NAS, and an xDSL DSLAM, and a few other
> things. I think I recently explained the difference between a single
> processor Max 4000 and a distributed processing TNT. The TNT can accomodate
> heavy routing that the Max 4000 cannot.
> 

Between the two classes I took, one in Chicago, the other in Alameda,
everyone in both places really suggested it wasn't anything more then a
'fat max'. I have two T1 cards, and the rest of it is full of modems, so
I'm going to give it a try as a router regardless. 

Andy

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