[110035] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Gigabit Linux Routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Sat Dec 20 14:34:42 2008
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:34:34 -0600
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
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Once upon a time, David Coulson <david@davidcoulson.net> said:
> 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).
Well, the J-series are fully software-based routers. Still, they have
their own routing daemons and such.
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Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
