At 10:54 AM 7/13/98 +0200, Niels Bakker wrote:
>or configure ospf to only distribute a summary. If they upgrade to an IOS
>version dated this decade they can filter announcements with a route-map
>(it is of course advisory for you to do the same), they can build a filter
>that only allows routes of with a length of /16 to pass through.
You offered two excellent suggestions, and I completely agree that
redistributing from customer OSPF into BGP is a Bad Idea (tm). However,
11.0 is actually only two or three years old, and, perhaps more
importantly, it is the last version that cisco has certified as "GD".
Although many of us like to run LD or even special releases (including
myself), I find it perfectly acceptable to run an older release of code
that has been certified by the manufacturer.
I believe you were just being sarcastic, but I think perhaps the sarcasm
should point at the real problem - cisco's recent software QC problems.
Although it is not an abysmal failure, I don't see how they could get much
closer. I'm sure you all know about the problems - four revs available,
features in older versions not available in newer versions, several
"sub-flavors" of each version (CA, CC, CF, etc.). And things like
important features only in certain flavors (e.g. ISL only in enterprise,
etc.).
Okay, sorry about the rant. I'm just tired of dealing with bugs, versions,
feature clash, etc., etc. And yes, I've heard the mantra:
"twelve-point-oh-will-save-us-all". But sometimes it just gets to be too
much. Almost makes me want to use Bays on my backbone. (JUST KIDDING! :)
>Niels Bakker, * * EuroNet Internet BV
TTFN,
patrick
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