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Re: Arrowpoint Load Balancing Devices

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy Brown)
Mon Jul 10 21:17:56 2000

Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 21:15:31 -0400
From: Timothy Brown <tcb@ga.prestige.net>
To: Karyn Ulriksen <kulriksen@publichost.com>
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> The CS800 chassis is a pretty big box, about the size of a Cisco 7507.  Last
> I checked it had 4x RAM capability of the CS100 (and 2x of the CS150).
> Since the major source of my woes appeared to be memory related, it didn't
> look like a good jump $-wise and u-wise (I'm guessing at 16u ?) to serve the
> same number of devices.  As I remember, it's a 10 slot chassis - two for the
> management modules.  How many slots do you have populated on your chassis?
> Are they all GigE or 10/100s or a mix?  

I seem to remember the folks over at Andover being disgusted with the
Arrowpoint boxes after a recent denial-of-service attack.  You might try
searching on Slashdot; I think they posted a pretty fair criticism of the
boxes.

(Slashdot was using CS100s, as I recall).

-- 
Timothy Brown
tcb@ga.prestige.net

/* I speak for myself, not my company. */


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