Glad to have you apart of isp-bgp. You're the first I can remember to
properly introduce themselves, major kudos.


Matthew Ploessel
Network Engineer
Foundstone Inc.
(949) 297-5622
https://www.foundstone.com/pgpkeys/matt_ploessel.asc
PGP fingerprint = 5233 27A0 E504 2887 0F6F  0218 7495 1EB2 F182 E914
**DISCLAIMER : Opinions expressed may not necessarily reflect the
opinion of my employer

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erik Haagsman [mailto:erik@...> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 5:46 AM
> To: isp-bgp@isp-bgp.com
> Subject: [isp-bgp] Small intro
> 
> 
> Hi list,
> 
> Just got the ISP-BGP welcome message so I thought I'd be a 
> good boy and post a short intro to myself :-)
> 
> I work for a start-up Dutch Internet Exchange that's in the 
> middle of a major network expansion and we rely heavily on 
> all kinds of neat BGP tricks to keep ourselves and our 
> customers happy. Our core network currently consists of a 
> routing backbone on a Froundry NetIron 400 and a NetIron 800 
> with a Riverstone RS8000, an Extreme BD6808 and a BigIron 
> 8000 as aggregation switches in different geographical places 
> to get traffic to our router core and break out traffic to 
> customer coming from the core. 
> Now I can already hear everyoone thinking "why don't they use 
> Juniper or Cisco for their Layer 3", but we're very pleased 
> with the NetIron's performance and the combined Oc3/Oc12 
> PoS-blades alone are lifesafers in our network. The Extreme 
> and Riverstone currently only run as route-reflector clients 
> on the NetIrons to do some basic local peering as necessary 
> and everything is as smooth as silk. Like I said, we're doing 
> a lot of new stuff and I think I'll be needing some advice 
> along the way so I thought this would be a good place to 
> start in case of unforseen challenges. Ofcourse, if I can 
> help someone else along the way, that's a nice bonus. And in 
> case you all wondered, yes I have worked with Cisco and 
> Juniper a lot in the past, but it never hurts to try something new :-)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Erik Haagsman
> Network Architect
> We Dare BV
> tel: +31(0)10-7507008
> fax: +31(0)10-7507005
> http://www.we-dare.nl
> 
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