[36557] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Getting a "portable" /19 or /20
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Fraizer)
Tue Apr 10 18:18:50 2001
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 17:33:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Fraizer <nanog@Overkill.EnterZone.Net>
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.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --msa
>
Please let me know where this _7200_ is that will do OC-192. _READ_ the
posts people. Haven't we been through this already?
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John Fraizer
EnterZone, Inc
