[128137] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Appliance Vs Software based routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Sun Jul 25 04:21:50 2010
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:21:37 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
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
The official answer: commodity hardware doesn't handle all the features needed
at "line rate".
The (more often than not) unofficial answer: using a custom platform
raises the entry barrier for cloning/abuse/etc. It's a bit hard to
run your appliance MIPS software on an off-the-shelf PC; but it (used)
to be possible to run PIX software on a PC (and in a VM too, IIRC.)
Fun times,
Adrian
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010, Tarig Yassin wrote:
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> I'm wondering why the software based router is not preferable in business even if they have high featured Processers, and high capcity of memory.
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> What is the main deferent between Appliance router and Software based routers?
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> thank you all in adavance.
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> Tarig Y. Adam
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