[36555] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Getting a "portable" /19 or /20
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher A. Woodfield)
Tue Apr 10 18:03:51 2001
From: "Christopher A. Woodfield" <rekoil@electro.semihuman.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 17:15:19 -0400
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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Oh, and when you can
(a) have Linux shut down a failing interface card on the fly and keep
humming along,
and
(b) be able to replace said card without shutting down,
lemme know.
Granted, there are many applications where a Linux or BSD box (or
preferably, two boxes terminating redundant circuits) running
gated would suit the needs perfectly, but anything considered mission-critical
is not such an application, IMHO.
-C
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 01:20:24PM -0700, 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.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --msa
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