[tech] Re: [ucc] WAIX is back

[David Basden]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 05:24:24PM -0800, Ian McKellar wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 08:08, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> > 
> > Has anyone used Foundry or Extreme? I'd love to tell 
> > you guys what our testing of Foundry stuff was like, 
> > but it's NDAed :-) (Was amazed I had to sign an NDA 
> > just to get a test router.)
> 
> We're using Foundry ServerIrons as our load balancers. I think our ops
> guys are fairly happy with them, then again, they're BSD users so you
> can never be too sure abou their opinions.

I cannot stress enough how bad the foundry serverirons are. They have
had a buggy IP stack, the CLI tries to look like IOS, but is so poorly
implemented that so much as changing the configuration can either 
corrupt the config, crash the router or both. On top of this their 
customer service department is dodgy at best.

Having tried to run these things in a production environment, I would
actively avoid anything with a Foundry badge on them.

.. D