[36552] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Getting a "portable" /19 or /20
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Tue Apr 10 17:10:56 2001
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 04:42:16 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <9DC8BBAD4FF100408FC7D18D1F092286039E3F@condor.mhsc.com>; from rmeyer@mhsc.com on Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 01:27:37PM -0700
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On Tue, Apr 10, 2001, Roeland Meyer wrote:
>
> > From: Majdi S. Abbas [mailto:msa@samurai.sfo.dead-dog.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 1:20 PM
>
> > Please let me know when your Linux box is capable of doing
> > line rate forwarding on an OC-192.
>
> I actually saw a Linux box capable of doing this. It was on IBM S/390
> hardware. Admitedly, that would be a waste of horsepower. OC-192 is far to
> slow to keep that box busy.
.. actually, if only the PCI bus were faster, I'm sure someone
could build a GigE linerate router running under FreeBSD or Linux.
OC192 would probably want something a little more dedicated than
a PCI bus. But then, thats what a Juniper is for, right? :-)
Adrian
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