[16610] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Core router bakeoff?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Thu May 7 17:33:18 1998
To: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net>
cc: perry@piermont.com, Rob M VanHooren <rob@linkd.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 07 May 1998 16:15:36 CDT."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 17:24:37 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Karl Denninger writes:
> > You don't want Bay and you certainly don't want 3Com. If your network
> > is fairly slow (ethernets and T1s only) you can use PCs running a
> > reasonable BSD and GateD. Otherwise, the only commercial choice is
> > Cisco.
>
> FreeBSD and decent networking cards (ie: Intel PRO100Bs) can route a couple
> of 100Mbps switched fast ethernets (yes, full duplex too)
Yeah, but you'll have trouble getting decent T3 cards for it. Its true
that 100Mbps ethernet should be fine.
BTW, NetBSD with the recent flow cache mods can handle at least
150,000 packets per second. We haven't seen what the actual upper
limit is, but that number doesn't seem to be eating a lot of CPU.
> Contrary to popular belief, national networks are not simple to set up in a
> way which will insure that they have maximum survivability and performance.
Amen.
.pm
