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Re: BIRD vs Quagga


From: Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org>
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:48:06 +0000

On 17/02/2010 01:19, Randy Bush wrote:
i would add decades of bad anecdotes where the data plane is not
congruent with the control plane.  in general, when plane N is not
congruent with plane N+1, management and debugging are problematic.

I've always maintained publicly and privately that route servers are not
for everyone.  A good rule of thumb is: "using a route collector for
peering is probably suitable for your network unless you know why it isn't".

Interesting choice of wording: "decades of bad anecdotes".  Does that mean
anecdata?

Nick


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