[3525] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: sell shell accounts?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorian R. Kim)
Fri Jul 19 18:58:55 1996
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 18:56:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Dorian R. Kim" <dorian@cic.net>
To: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
cc: "Karl Denninger, MCSNet" <karl@mcs.com>, vansax@atmnet.net,
richards@netrex.com, agislist@interstice.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199607192242.SAA00749@netaxs.com>
On Fri, 19 Jul 1996, Avi Freedman wrote:
> 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.
Current mondo-routers like Netstar uses a switch fabric to parallelise
switching. It becomes pretty obvious that at OC-N speeds current serial
backplane architecture doesn't scale
Handling routing updates, unlike switching packets, is more a function of CPU
and software routines.
-dorian
