[130052] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Routers in Data Centers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ingo Flaschberger)
Sun Sep 26 21:31:47 2010
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 03:31:33 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ingo Flaschberger <if@xip.at>
To: Heath Jones <hj1980@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin_kun0NitETMVs1sQrSD5hB8MadNLx9DoitcYb@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> I'm more than interested in developing a much cheaper, hardware
> forwarding router..
> I think there is a lot of room for innovation - especially at the
> target market in this thread.
> If anyone wants to work with me on this, just let me know!
> I've got a tonne of ideas and a bit of free time..
>
> NetFPGA is a good platform, im saving my pennies to buy one and do
> some development.
> Its only a 4 port device, so not a device you would really use in
> production however.
But it seems, that NetFPGA has not enough memory to hold a full view
(current 340k routes).