[36545] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Getting a "portable" /19 or /20
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Majdi S. Abbas)
Tue Apr 10 16:22:58 2001
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 13:20:24 -0700
From: "Majdi S. Abbas" <msa@samurai.sfo.dead-dog.com>
To: Aaron Dewell <acd@woods.net>
Cc: Patrick Evans <pre@pre.org>, nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <20010410132024.A18130@samurai.sfo.dead-dog.com>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0104101228020.15530-100000@spruce.woods.net>; from acd@woods.net on Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 12:32:03PM -0600
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On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 12:32:03PM -0600, Aaron Dewell wrote:
> Memory and CPUs are not really that expensive, it just depends on how
> much certain router manufacturers think they can milk out of you for
> overpriced hardware. Considering that you can build a router with a
> PC and Linux for better performance, better stability, and better
> scalability than a 7200 for about a tenth the price, I fail to see why
> any of those boxes continue to be sold... It just requires actual
> quality PC hardware.
Please let me know when your Linux box is capable of doing
line rate forwarding on an OC-192.
Thanks!
--msa
