[16613] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Core router bakeoff?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Thu May 7 17:57:22 1998
To: Jon Green <jcgreen@netins.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 07 May 1998 16:31:23 CDT."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 17:36:45 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Jon Green writes:
> Wait.. a Bay BCN will push 1 Gb/s through the box,
Bay's have beautiful hardware architectures. The hardware is not the
problem.
> but you are recommending a PC running GateD over a Bay router?
At the low end, sure. They're cheap as all hell, easy to remote
manage, easy to expand, and very efficient. With the right software,
they are pretty damn nice. Lots of NSPs use the things these days --
Daemon in the U.K. used to do nothing but BSD boxes last time I
checked.
Perry
