[125344] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Router for Metro Ethernet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Mon Apr 12 15:32:57 2010
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:32:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <z2le95dc4e71004121126y1254a46x130c9c1120544eaa@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Jeffrey Negro wrote:
> In our case I believe we would be dealing with just static routes and a
> lines of ACL. Do you think the routing protocols are your largest resource
> usage in your scenario, or is it also just simple routing as well?
If your needs are simple IP routing + simple ACL, but you want line rate
ethernet, a layer 3 switch might make sense.
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