[264] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CIDR FAQ
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John G. Scudder)
Tue Aug 15 15:28:01 1995
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 15:12:30 -0400
To: Dave Siegel <dsiegel@net99.net>
From: jgs@aads.net (John G. Scudder)
Cc: inet-access@earth.com, cidrd@iepg.org, nanog@merit.edu, local-ir@ripe.net,
iap@vma.cc.nd.edu
At 11:00 AM 8/15/95, Dave Siegel wrote:
>Let's excuse the fact that gated consumes more memory than a cisco for the
>same amount of routes for a second...
>
>Okay, so let's talk functionality.
>
>Are there HSSI PCI cards available? Can you do SMDS over this card? Frame?
>What about a DS3 ATM card, or higher?
And Paul Traina wrote something vaguely similar.
I think you guys are both missing what I think was Jon's original point:
Routers forward packets faster than PCs, but the forwarding function and
the routing protocol function do not have to reside on the same box. You
can add a PC (workstation, whatever) which runs the routing protocol and
stuffs routes into the router. It doesn't have to support the link-layer
du jour. Ethernet will do the job just fine.
As I recall the original discussion was of colocating a router, to forward
packets, with a workstation, to compute routes.
--John
