[110020] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Gigabit Linux Routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Coulson)
Fri Dec 19 22:21:15 2008
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:19:55 -0500
From: David Coulson <david@davidcoulson.net>
To: Brandon Galbraith <brandon.galbraith@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <366100670812191912m3979408cg67c11013cc029b54@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
It doesn't - It's just an x86 PC. I have Vyatta running inside VMware
ESX, not well, but it works ;-)
Comparing Imagestream and Vyatta to Juniper is crazy. The first two are
software based platforms (with perhaps some hardware off-load for
checksums and whatnot), where as the Juniper pretty much just uses BSD
for control-plane features (BGP, for example, and controlling the
hardware that actually does packet switching/routing).
Brandon Galbraith wrote:
> I wasn't aware of imagestream using any custom (asic) hardware, except
> the T1/3 cards in the concentrator we bought from them (worked like a
> champ, btw).
