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  From: Dan Shearer <dan@tellurian.com.au>
  To  : Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org>
  Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 11:09:44 +1030 (CST)

Re: "Host based" routers and BGP

On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Mark Newton wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 02:15:24AM +1030, David Newall wrote:
> 
>  > I'm not arguing with your call to use a dedicated router for routing, but I
>  > do wonder if Ciscos really are as reliable as you think they are.  As an ISP
>  > you would get to see a lot of hardware problems from cheapo PCs, and maybe
>  > even from not-so-cheapo PCs, but then you get to see an awful lot of PCs, in
>  > fact far more PCs than routers I would guess.  That's likely to skew  your
>  > perception.
> 
> Ok, let's be clear about this.  In all my years in this industry, I have
> never seen a Cisco develop a hardware failure.  Not once.

I have once, but then as you say, nothing is perfect.

The point that some people seem to run large BGP (etc) routers with Unix
machines without problems might be like observing that millions of people
in some strange countries drive without seatbelts every day without
getting hurt.

--
Dan Shearer
Open Source Manager
dan@tellurian.com.au

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