[20882] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Linux Router KIT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Thu Oct 29 04:00:36 1998
To: alex@nac.net
cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Tony Li <tli@juniper.net>
Date: 29 Oct 1998 00:35:00 -0800
In-Reply-To: alex@nac.net's message of 29 Oct 98 07:16:54 GMT
> > What kind of interface do you want ? You have async (multiport
> > async), sync, ethernet, fddi and now atm is coming. BTW, do you get
> > arcnet with cisco ? :-)
>
> HSSI?
ATM is doable today. There are multiple HSSI vendors out there:
http://www.lanmedia.com/products.htm
http://www.sdlcomm.com/
> > Define lots. You want full BGP table in a PC router ? Why :) ?
The bandwidth through a router is not necessarily directly related to the
amount of routing information that one needs to support. For example, one
can easily imagine a multi-homed site that buys transit from multiple
backbones. While no single backbone is deserving of very high bandwidth,
the need to maintain a full routing table for optimal return path routing
could be quite high.
Tony
