[106288] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Software router state of the art
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Fri Jul 25 13:56:16 2008
From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:56:04 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <488A120C.8020406@decarta.com> from "Sargun Dhillon" at Jul 25,
2008 10:49:00 AM
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> Would you rather deploy a $3000 cisco edge box which is a unexpandable,
> 100 mbit piece of crap, or throw two $2000 Dell boxes and have a 1 GigE
> platform?
You don't need two $2000 Dell boxes to get a 1G platform, but this isn't
the list for that. You also don't need a ton of money to do open source
development (we do one major project here in-house, one that's responsible
for generating a noticeable amount of traffic on most networks). But this
also isn't the list for that discussion.
I suspect software routing is going to continue to be a growing factor in
the packet herding world, as more people want to do more interesting
things, and the CPU's are able to deal with more, more, more.
... JG
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