[107470] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Force10 Gear - Opinions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Thu Sep 4 02:36:51 2008
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:36:39 -0700
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Paul Wall <pauldotwall@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <620fd17c0809032045h3bf1f470mca541f8b8a26f3da@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Paul Wall wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com> wrote:
>> On Aug 26, 2008, at 12:26 AM, Paul Wall wrote:
>>> Routing n*GE at line rate isn't difficult these days, even with all
>>> 64-byte packets and other "DoS" conditions.
>>>
>>> Linksys, D-Link, SMC, etc are able to pull it off on the layer 3
>>> switches sold at Fry's for a couple benjamins a pop. :)
>> Sorry, I thought you were serious.
>
> I am. All of these boxes can forward packets at line rate, and list
> for a fraction of the price of the Force 10 S-Series.
a dlink dsg-3627g is a quite a few benjamins...
but given that switch asics for said class of products are widely
available and cheap, the difference between vender a and vendor b in
that class of switch is futher up in the software stack.
> I'll be correcting your other posts shortly!
>
> Drive Slow,
> Paul Wall
>
