[103365] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 10GE router resource
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin Shore)
Wed Mar 26 16:31:12 2008
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:18:04 -0500
From: Justin Shore <justin@justinshore.com>
To: michael.dillon@bt.com
CC: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <D03E4899F2FB3D4C8464E8C76B3B68B00237D62F@E03MVC4-UKBR.domain1.systemhost.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
michael.dillon@bt.com wrote:
>
>> Even if it is technically feasible to route traffic over a
>> server,
>
> A computer running Linux is not a server. If it's job is to
> route and forward packets, then it is a router. And the fact
> that people are pushing the envelope at 10G is because Linux
> routers are already known to do a great job at 1G and below.
Just because you can do something doesn't mean that you should.
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Justin
