[106456] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Software router state of the art
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eugeniu Patrascu)
Tue Jul 29 03:38:36 2008
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:38:19 +0300
From: Eugeniu Patrascu <eugen@imacandi.net>
To: Aaron Glenn <aaron.glenn@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <18f601940807282037g4574c6c7j93a910d793942f35@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Aaron Glenn wrote:
> On 7/28/08, Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us> wrote:
>
>> Junpier's J-series is a BSD based platform as far as I understand it.
>> ImageStream is *much* more affordable for me, but is Linux-based, and I fear
>>
> ...snip...
>
> AFAIK, none of Juniper's Juniper kit rocks BSD outside of the
> management interfaces and control plane (not even sure about the
> latter, tbh).
>
> someone feel free to correct me...
>
In the M/T series, control plan is handled by the RE, and the forwarding
by the ASICs on each PIC.
in the J series, the control and forwarding plane are controlled by the
RE, although the forwarding plane has a real time thread in the BSD
kernel (or so Juniper says it does).
