[128146] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Appliance Vs Software based routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Sun Jul 25 12:03:44 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <4C4BE862.1020305@brightok.net>
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 08:58:54 -0700
To: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jul 25, 2010, at 12:31 AM, Jack Bates wrote:
> Tarig Yassin wrote:
>> What is the main deferent between Appliance router and Software based =
routers?
>=20
> 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.
>=20
>=20
> Jack
Most "Appliances" are small(er) software-based routers.
Owen
