[3521] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: sell shell accounts?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Denninger, MCSNet)
Fri Jul 19 18:47:06 1996
To: freedman@netaxs.com (Avi Freedman)
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 17:45:06 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Karl Denninger, MCSNet" <karl@mcs.com>
Cc: vansax@atmnet.net, richards@netrex.com, agislist@interstice.com,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199607192242.SAA00749@netaxs.com> from "Avi Freedman" at Jul 19, 96 06:41:59 pm
>
> > Not fast enough when you're talking about OC3s ;-).
>
> > Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - The Finest Internet Connectivity
>
> Gated doesn't have to be faster when the router is routing OC3s than
> when it's routing 56ks...
>
> I assume that the mondo-routers have a switching engine, and the
> only job of the main CPU/gated combo is to feed the current idea
> of the best next-hop/interface to the engine.
>
> Avi
This is true. But show me a model in which this works and which can update
that forwarding table 20x/second (at full load WHILE switching packets).
That's what Netstar claims.
CISCO can't even *dream* of getting close to this level of performance.
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