[248] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: routing meltdown
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Siegel)
Sun Aug 13 18:38:35 1995
From: Dave Siegel <dsiegel@net99.net>
To: bass@linux.silkroad.com (Tim Bass)
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 15:35:51 -0700 (MST)
Cc: avg@sprint.net, jon@branch.com, smd@icp.net, yakov@cisco.com,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199508112126.AA10185@linux.silkroad.com> from "Tim Bass" at Aug 11, 95 05:26:38 pm
> > ...which requires even more state kept in gateways, and
> > therefore more CPU required to maintain that state.
> >
> > Film at 11.
> >
> > --vadim
> >
>
> CPUs are cheap. One 133 MHz Pentium cost less than either of
> us make in a day..... In six months, even cheaper.
And exactly which platforms are optomized to take advantage of the P133? Not
too many. You'd be better off running a multi-processor Sparc 20 w/Solaris
(ewwww.)
Dave
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