[116082] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What is good in modular routers these days?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Sun Jul 19 22:46:03 2009
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:45:17 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: William Pitcock <nenolod@systeminplace.net>
In-Reply-To: <1248055745.24895.29.camel@petrie>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sun, 19 Jul 2009, William Pitcock wrote:
> I'm looking for a Cisco 2600-like platform, except with the capability
> of routing with gigabit and 10gigabit linecards (and not being EOL, of
> course). Ideally it would be capable of doing full BGP tables in the
> supervision engine, although that isn't necessarily a show stopper right
> now. Lack of IPv6 support, however, is.
There are no CPU based routers with proper 10GE forwarding capabilities
that I am aware of, closest would be network processor based (which some
might argue is a lot of CPUs in some cases, but it's not a 2600 type CPU
anyway).
Single-thread CPU just isn't fast enough to handle the PPS involved
(currently).
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
