[1108] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Links on the blink - what will/should mci & sprint do?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Sun Nov 19 22:24:36 1995
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 20:26:49 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: Jon Zeeff <jon@branch.com>
cc: jon@branch.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0tHJTC-000Nj5C@aero.branch.com>
On Sun, 19 Nov 1995, Jon Zeeff wrote:
>
> > > | Sounds like there is a need for a good ip switch. Something simple,
> > > | very fast, and low cost that you can download "static" routes to.
> > >
> > > It's called an SSP.
>
> And it's available as a standalone box?
>
> > routing tables are NOT static. Switching is working fine, but the size of
>
> All routes are static for short periods of time.
>
> This has all been discussed before, but there are advantages to doing
> route table calculation on general purpose machines.
I suppose you would like to see an SSP with some sort of interface
directly into its switching tables, maybe based on DMA?
Can you be sure that Cisco and/or other companies aren't working on this
already?
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