[110033] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Gigabit Linux Routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Sat Dec 20 11:32:21 2008
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: David Coulson <david@davidcoulson.net>
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:28:57 +0100
In-Reply-To: <494C645B.4040507@davidcoulson.net> (David Coulson's message of
"Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:19:55 -0500")
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
* David Coulson:
> 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).
Juniper has software-based offerings, too. Not everybody pushes
multi-gigabit traffic volumes at which (software on) special
processors seem to be required.
