[107487] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Force10 Gear - Opinions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jo Rhett)
Thu Sep 4 12:38:00 2008
From: Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com>
To: Paul Wall <pauldotwall@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <620fd17c0809032045h3bf1f470mca541f8b8a26f3da@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 09:36:39 -0700
Cc: NANOG Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Sep 3, 2008, at 8:45 PM, Paul Wall wrote:
>>> 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. :)
>>
> 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.
You and I (and any real network operator) must have different
definitions of "forward at line rate".
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Jo Rhett
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and other randomness
