[16673] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Core router bakeoff?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Sanders)
Fri May 8 13:55:47 1998
Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 10:47:06 -0400
To: perry@piermont.com
From: Robert Sanders <rsanders@mindspring.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199805080146.VAA00960@jekyll.piermont.com>
>BTW, we are managing to get NetBSD to handle multiple ethernets at
>wire speed now that NetBSD-current has (still experimental) flow cache
>code in it.
[perhaps erroneously supposing that the promise of new longevity for Unix
on commodity hardware as an edge packet forwarding engine is relevant to
NANOG...]
I heard on the FreeBSD lists that NASA is sponsoring this work. Does
anybody know the desired end product? The release notes I saw seemed
biased towards host stack improvements, with the flow cache a notable
exception. I'd kill for a decent low-cost , high-density 10/100 ethernet
traffic shaping device with functionality similar to Cisco's CAR or, dare
to dream, a Packeteer.
regards,
-- Robert
