[112146] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: real hardware router VS linux router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Thu Feb 19 15:47:39 2009
To: Deric Kwok <deric.kwok2000@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:30:16 EST."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:47:27 -0500
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:30:16 EST, Deric Kwok said:
> Hi All
>
> Actually, what is the different hardware router VS linux router?
I'm continually amazed by the number of people who manage to conflate
two entirely different issues here.
There's *TWO* axes here:
| PC-class hardware | routing-blade-architecture hardware
-----------+-----------------------+-----------------------------------
proprietary| |
-----------+-----------------------+-----------------------------------
open-source| |
Kinda like that. A Juniper box (which is a BSD running on something that's
*not* PC-class hardware) is a prime example that it's not "hardware versus
linux" - it's two separate questions.
1) Is PC-class gear "good enough"? Do you have the hardware interfaces
needed, and the I/O backplanes? Or is something with more oomph needed?
2) Does the software running on the box support the feature set you need?
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