[151648] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Force10 E Series at the edge?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Wed Mar 28 11:13:03 2012
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From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:06:03 -0600
To: Randy <randy_94108@yahoo.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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> I can't speak for forece10 which is DELL now.
> As Joe mentioned, the biggest problem is "their-support" of 680k prefixes w=
ith the QUAD-CAM linecards. DUAL-CAM line cards do 512K in theory. Regular o=
nes don't work because thay support 320K prefifex and "die" around 300K
>=20
If memory serves, it's worse than that. Those numbers can only be achieved i=
f you turn off IPv6 altogether IIRC.
Owen