On Thursday 25 January 2007 12:25, Dan Farrell wrote: > hehehe I just realized I'm the DF that posted that originally... I > thought that all sounded too familiar! LOL. So if you disagree with > the points in that post, you can aim directly at me. > > I've been mentioning OpenBGPD for awhile on the isp-wireless list, > it's nice to see the word getting out. > > > Dan Farrell > Applied Innovations > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1.) Be cautious with your initials; they can easily be misread. ;-) 2.) Be cautious with both "standard" and "non-standard" as they can also easily be misread and often, they are just an invitation to (yet another) heated debate. Unfortunately, far too many people put far too much importance on the output of the organizations supposedly writing self-claimed "official standards." CARP is a standardized way to get a job done. VRRP is a standardized way to get a job done. HSRP is a standardized way to get a job done. All of the jobs are similar *and* all three ways are "standards" *and* each one holds the imaginary "official blessing" of some group. In the end, the only thing that matters is if two *implementations* of a particular "standard" are reasonably compatible. Since human beings make mistakes and garbage *does* get into "standards," there is actually a very good case for having some degree of incompatibility. Instead of blithering about "non-standard" or "standard compliance," I usually prefer blithering about implementation "A" is incompatible with implementation "B" on feature/section "X" of standard "Y" for reason "Z" while stating both sides of the reason. 3.) Since all of the people using, testing and helping to improve OpenBGPD are, by definition, a group, and those are the exact same people you turn to for support, you cannot fairly say there is no vendor support. The developers, the testers and the users together are actually the vendor. The important issue to some decision makers is whether or not "support contracts" are available. If you wish to address that concern, it is far more fair to say "Free support is available from the community but support contracts are only available from third party companies." Kind Regards, JCR (yep, I have the same confusing initial problem you do ;-) -- cd ~. -Almost Home
