[177597] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: scaling linux-based router hardware recommendations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Wed Jan 28 10:51:39 2015
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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 15:51:22 +0000
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: Colin Johnston <colinj@gt86car.org.uk>,
Charles N Wyble <charles@thefnf.org>
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On 28/01/2015 14:45, Colin Johnston wrote:
> qnx os based router works well with powerpc, could be pushed far higher
> load than intel based chips
that may be so, but how many people out there know how to push qnx that
hard compared freebsd/linux on amd64 compatible hardware, and how many
people know how to configure up a juniper mx or cisco asr9k, compared to
the number that can tune a freely available unix. As someone pointed out
elsewhere, there's no such thing as a free lunch. If you want to economise
on hardware, you should expect to pay for the expertise to do it.
Nick
