[107494] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Force10 Gear - Opinions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Wall)
Thu Sep 4 13:03:54 2008
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 13:03:47 -0400
From: "Paul Wall" <pauldotwall@gmail.com>
To: "Jo Rhett" <jrhett@netconsonance.com>
In-Reply-To: <DB7FF040-59DA-48C6-A6AA-576BCACD1BD9@netconsonance.com>
Cc: NANOG Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com> 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".
"forwards a gig-e full of 64 byte packets, random src/dst, when you
hook a smartbits/ixia up to it" is mine. What's yours?
Mind you, this is probably one of the more useless metrics for vendor
selection these days, and nobody has a major problem with it.
Drive Slow,
Paul Wall
