[36553] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Getting a "portable" /19 or /20
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Thomason)
Tue Apr 10 17:23:59 2001
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 13:46:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: James Thomason <james@divide.org>
To: "Majdi S. Abbas" <msa@samurai.sfo.dead-dog.com>
Cc: Aaron Dewell <acd@woods.net>, Patrick Evans <pre@pre.org>,
nanog@merit.edu
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On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Majdi S. Abbas wrote:
>
> 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.
Please let me know when a 7200 will do line rate forwarding on an
OC-192. :) Sorry... I had to....I do not think that Linux is exactly cut
out for the job, but he DID say a 7200. :)
>
> Thanks!
>
> --msa
>
>
