[127747] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vyatta as a BRAS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Curtis Maurand)
Tue Jul 13 11:31:30 2010
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:30:00 -0400
From: Curtis Maurand <cmaurand@xyonet.com>
To: Greg Whynott <Greg.Whynott@oicr.on.ca>
In-Reply-To: <B041E921-4550-4ED7-9A49-5DE4C2D93D46@oicr.on.ca>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 7/13/2010 11:11 AM, Greg Whynott wrote:
>>>
>> They are all software based, no matter who builds them. Cisco IOS,
>> Juniper JunOS, etc.
>>
> controlling hardware asic's and fpga's.
>
In a PIX, its a Pentium 4. I've also been in other routers that use
PowerPC. It depends on the manufacturer. Cisco uses its own custom
processor when it gets to that level. Its why you have a choice of
processor in the 7200's.
--Curtis
