[127750] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vyatta as a BRAS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Tue Jul 13 12:15:58 2010
From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:15:18 +0000
In-Reply-To: <201007131558.o6DFwavk096542@aurora.sol.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jul 13, 2010, at 10:58 PM, Joe Greco wrote:
> It's interesting. One can get equally militant and say that hardware bas=
ed routers are irrelevant in many applications.=20
When BCPs are followed, they don't tend to fall over the moment someone hit=
s them with a few kpps of packets - which should be a key criteria for an e=
dge device.
The same can't be said of software-based devices.
If maintaining availability is important, then hardware-based (semantic hai=
rsplitting aside) devices are a requirement.
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