<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Kevin:<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I can't help you with the technical stuff. I can, however, tell you that Foundry will put pre-owned gear under software maintenance only (bronze contract, I believe). But the hardware is so cheap these days, it hardly makes a difference.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I may have a copy of a BigIron user's manual (it's pretty huge) that I can put on CD, if you want it. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-Gilli<BR><DIV><DIV>On Sep 14, 2007, at 4:01 PM, W. Kevin Hunt wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV class="Section1"><P class="MsoNormal">I’m from the Cisco world so forgive me if the questions are a bit juvenile...<O:P></O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal"><O:P> </O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal">We are picking up a new egress provider delivered via GigE.<O:P></O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal">We’ll be running an average of 250 megs through it, with peaks in the 500 meg range.<O:P></O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal"><O:P> </O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal">Anyone have any recommendations? We just absorbed a company’s assets and they have a FastIron 400 with the GMR4 JetCore blade and a B4000 with the BXGMR-4 8 port Gig E blade. The initial specs I have been able to pull seem impressive, and I am not too happy with having to put in the Sup 720BXL if I want a Cisco solution that will handle expected internet route table growth for more 18 months (sooner if you believe the doomsdayers).<O:P></O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal"><O:P> </O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal">I see many complaints about older Foundry code having issues with BGP and OSPF, I assume these are now stable ?<O:P></O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal"><O:P> </O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal">How do either of these hold up under high pps ddos loads ?<O:P></O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal"><O:P> </O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal">What is Foundry’s stance on putting such gear under software maintenance and support contract ?<O:P></O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal"><O:P> </O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal">I tried to read Foundry’s literature, but it appears one must have a login to their web page to read such super secret documentation...<O:P></O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal"><O:P> </O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal"><O:P> </O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal"><O:P> </O:P></P> </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">foundry-nsp mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net">foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp">http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Gillian Canty-Ross PH: +1617-680-6492</DIV><DIV> SubSpace Communications, LLC</DIV><DIV> <A href="http://www.subspacecom.com">http://www.subspacecom.com</A></DIV>AIM: gillicanty Skype: gillicanty<BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><DIV> The Geek's Choice for Network Gear!</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>