[127870] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vyatta as a BRAS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Sun Jul 18 13:22:04 2010
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From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
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Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 18:12:29 +0100
To: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 18 Jul 2010, at 10:58, "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net> wrote:
> ASR1K, which is what I'm assuming you're referring to, is a hardware-based=
router. Same for ASR9K.
My c* SE swears that the asr1k is a "software router". I didn't push him on=
it's architecture though.=20
The asr9k is an npu based device - a completely different beast with differe=
nt architecture / operating system / capabilities / etc.
Nick=
