[112167] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: real hardware router VS linux router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Bertrand)
Thu Feb 19 18:44:08 2009
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:43:53 -0500
From: Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca>
To: hardenrm@uiuc.edu
In-Reply-To: <499D6E99.1090706@uiuc.edu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Ryan Harden wrote:
> While you could probably build a linux router that is just as fast as a
> real hardware router, you're always going to run into the moving pieces
> part of the equation.
Not if you boot directly from USB key into memory with no disk drive.
Steve