Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 23:44:38 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Joseph Gleason" <clash@tasam.com>, "Cameron McLaughlin" <cameron@netvmg.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Hello Message-ID: <005401c11a55$6f570200$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <002f01c11a08$e5936ff0$0a2d2d0a@battleship>
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Hi Joseph, I am one. It's overrated. If you want to help yourself don't waste your time studying BGP until you have spent the time to understand OSPF. There's really only one network that runs BGP and that's the Internet. Oh, there's a few large corporate nets that have multiple egresses to the Internet and are forced to carry BGP between all their gateway routers in their corporation, but they use BGP primariarly for balancing egress traffic to the Internet from within their internal networks. OSPF (and sometimes IGRP) is what they use to handle their internal routing. Your going to see many more corporate networks that run OSPF internally and no BGP at all than you will see corporate networks running BGP. ISP's are the primary consumers of BGP engineers and you will probably make more money working as a WAN administrator in a large corporation than you would working as a WAN engineer at an ISP. Looking at netVmg's website, it appears that they are just another of a long list of companies that have tried and failed to switch the Internet's routing protocol from BGP4 to something proprietary that they make money off of. It's hard to tell if they want BSD or BGP people - either would help them. If the Internet really were a composed of about 10 major backbone carriers then companies like this might have a shot at it - but the Internet has way too many small ISP's that would have little financial benefit from the enticements that netVmg is putting in their routing protocol for any patented technology to take root in it. What they are selling is really going to be of primary interest to big carriers with big customers and while there's enough of them to make a living off of, what netVmg is doing is clearly a niche market and will most likely stay a niche market for the forseeable future. If netVmg were doing something that's open standard, then it might be interesting. But then they probably wouldn't be able to make any money at it. :-) Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Joseph Gleason Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 2:37 PM To: Cameron McLaughlin; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hello It is my understanding that BGP experts are much more expensive than Free. Which is why I am trying to become one. Do you mean FreeBSD experts? ----- Original Message ----- From: Cameron McLaughlin To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 17:26 Subject: Hello How can I let people know about us on your site. We are looking for some FreeBGP engineers. Our website: www.netvmg.com Cameron McLaughlin netVmg www.netvmg.com cameron@netvmg.com 408-474-0377 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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