[103376] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 10GE router resource
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Wed Mar 26 21:43:49 2008
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:52:01 +0900
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: Justin Shore <justin@justinshore.com>
Cc: michael.dillon@bt.com, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <47EAAF7C.7090801@justinshore.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008, Justin Shore wrote:
> >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.
Hands up those of you running Cat6500's in service provider
environments.
Adrian
