[3535] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: sell shell accounts?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brett D. Watson)
Sat Jul 20 04:27:49 1996
To: "Dorian R. Kim" <dorian@cic.net>
cc: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>,
"Karl Denninger,
MCSNet" <karl@mcs.com>, vansax@atmnet.net,
richards@netrex.com, agislist@interstice.com, nanog@merit.edu
From: "Brett D. Watson" <bwatson@genuity.net>
Reply-To: bwatson@genuity.net
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 01:04:26 -0700
> 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.
and the last time i worked on a netstar gigarouter (admittedly months ago) it was a long way from really doing solid routing (bgp, etc). maybe it's much improved now?
-brett
