[106134] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Software router state of the art
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Wed Jul 23 14:16:46 2008
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:16:32 -0500
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
To: Adam Armstrong <lists@memetic.org>
In-Reply-To: <488771AD.7040200@memetic.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Once upon a time, Adam Armstrong <lists@memetic.org> said:
> Sounds like a Juniper J-series. Have a look at the forwarding figures
> for the J6350. It does something around 2mpps and it's just an intel CPU
> with some PCI/PCI-X interfaces. The device just below it, the J4350 uses
> a 2.53Ghz celeron. I'm not sure what the J6350 uses.
IIRC the new slots (the EPIMs) are PCI-E. The J6350 CPU is a P4 3.4GHz.
It is my understanding that the J-series use a real-time layer under the
FreeBSD kernel and have a real-time thread for forwarding (as opposed to
the M-series with a hardware forwarding engine).
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Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
