[116103] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What is good in modular routers these days?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Mon Jul 20 22:31:53 2009
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:31:00 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: William Pitcock <nenolod@systeminplace.net>
In-Reply-To: <1248101926.24895.33.camel@petrie>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009, William Pitcock wrote:
> I don't need any of that stuff, just BGP, OSPF and fast packet
> forwarding for IPv4. But the point is that I need only routing
> functionality, I don't need switching functionality like on a Cisco
> 6500-class system.
I bet if you went and spoke to the right people in the correct
open source kernel/distribution project, -given the right clue-,
very fast forwarding and QoS could start appearing in *NIX OSes.
The problem I see is there's a lot of demand -once it is done-, but
no one org or group willing to pony up to see it happen.
The clue is out there. They're just looking for a way to pay the
rent.
Adrian
(Not looking to do this, I have enough going on atm..)
