[41095] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Wed Aug 29 14:59:02 2001
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 20:59:34 +0200 (CEST)
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
To: John Ferriby <john@interbroad.com>
Cc: NANOG <NANOG@merit.edu>
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On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, John Ferriby wrote:
> > Look back. Routers have always lagged _WAY_ behind most other
> > computer technology in terms of processor power, RAM, and general
[...]
> Gawd. This so true. Back in the moldy old days when DECnet was
> far more common, Digital brought out a dedicated router. VAXen
> were the common systems and host based routing of DECnet was very
> common. What hardware platform did they use? PDP 11/24. Early
> ciscos (pre AGS/AGS+/MGS/CGS/Trouter/IGS) were based on SUN hardware.
> Once cisco "customized" their Motorola-based platform the state-of-
> the-art slowed dramatically. SUN went the way of Sparc and cisco
> hung out with CISC/680x0 chips until the life cycle of the 680x0
> was nearly dead.
It's even worse than that: as far as I know, they never used the 68060 or
even 68040 CPUs. These puppies are a LOT faster than a 68030.
