Thus spake Brian
On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Jeff Mcadams wrote:
Thus spake farber@admin.f-tech.net
2.0.60 and 4.1.59-6 seems to be the most stable DSP/ARC code. Most of the diff. in 4.2 series is for routing protocols (bgp) from what I understand.
OSPF and frame-relay :) ...no BGP (yet at least).
and hopefuly BGP will stay out of the code for a very long time :). My reasoning is that any time spent on developing BGP code, could be better spent elswhere.........
Assuming that resources spent on developing BGP could be transferred to working on other features without cost...which is unlikely (unless you want to move the resources to a similar feature...IS-IS?). If 3Com has routing protocol programmers sitting there twiddling their thumbs, I'd rather them go ahead and do BGP...cause it could prove useful (particularly if 3Com wants the HiPer Arc to ever be more than just an edge system...which it definitely has the potential to be). I do agree with you though...there are many features that I'd rather see as a higher priority than BGP...what Cisco calls "policy routing" would be terribly useful, for example. Bridging is still something that I want drastically, and a "packet bus interface" would be seriously cool (ie, have an IP interface to the packet bus of the chassis to facilitate Arc to Arc communication...or combine with the bridging for added fun for the whole family! ;). Hrmm...other ideas... Develop the abilities of the Arc as a t1/t3, etc connected device. The new NICs with 4.2.x give the Arc the ability to terminate t1's. You apparently can (I haven't tested this yet) run PPP over these t1's (in previous messages I had said you couldn't), but the implementation seems fairly limited on it...also, with frame-relay PVC's...why not use PAP/CHAP and RADIUS to get the configuration for these ports? The manageability aspects that this gives you is a huge win (anyone doing DSL service has probably figured this out...I know we did when we started doing DSL...and in a big way!) -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@iglou.com Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456 - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.