[128135] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Appliance Vs Software based routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Sun Jul 25 03:32:28 2010
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 02:31:46 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Tarig Yassin <tariq198487@hotmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <SNT137-w39FD981B817CE38399B35BBA50@phx.gbl>
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Tarig Yassin wrote:
> What is the main deferent between Appliance router and Software based routers?
I believe the main difference is the ability to handle features at line
rate speeds. The more interfaces/speed + CoS/ACL, the harder it is for a
software based router to keep up.
Jack
