[41121] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Wed Aug 29 22:25:26 2001
Message-Id: <200108300224.f7U2OrZ15972@foo-bar-baz.cc.vt.edu>
To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 29 Aug 2001 19:30:45 EDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 22:24:53 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 19:30:45 EDT, Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> said:
>
> If you're building a multi-bay router (a la a number of new designs)
> why not use a bay for the general purpose functions? Specifically
> something like a sun E10000, or HP v-class (to illustrate top of
Note that the magic of an E10K isn't the processors (which are pretty
similar to the E6500), it's the partitioning and backplane magic.
An E10K backplane is pretty deep voodoo. I'm told that it's not
a Sun design, nor is it a Sun manufactured. They're pretty pricey
too - I'm guessing that you DID have a price point for this router with
less than 7 digits in it?
/Valdis
