[103332] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 10GE router resource
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Giagnocavo)
Tue Mar 25 23:56:52 2008
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:51:00 -0400
From: Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick@zill.net>
To: Aaron Glenn <aaron.glenn@gmail.com>
CC: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <18f601940803251913t280bf39ehd527ca69fe1ee3b9@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Aaron Glenn wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Patrick Clochesy <patrick@chegg.com> wrote:
>> Very interesting study I had not seen, and a bummer. That really puts a
>> cramp in my advocation of our CARP+pf load balancers/firewalls/gateways.
>> Than again, what's a PIX box capable of?
>
> I'd rather tweak a whitebox than pay through the nose for a PIX.
>
Curious if you or others have tried Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris, they
claim that they are approaching wire speed 10G with the right card
(possibly their own, which is about $995 list).
--Patrick
