[48202] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rubenstein)
Thu May 23 16:19:17 2002
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 16:17:16 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>
To: Vinny Abello <vinny@tellurian.com>
Cc: David Charlap <David.Charlap@marconi.com>,
"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
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> I agree with you on that. Hot swapability for various interfaces is
> something routers obviously have over PC's.
Hot swap PCI is old news.
> True... unless going for 64 bit PCI at 66MHz... still it's obvious that
> routers are designed for one simple purpose and generally have larger
> backplanes to handle that.
However, $ for $, even when buying used cisco gear at 80% off from
dot-booms, a PC router will outperform any traditional router.
> I agree a router is probably more efficient in just routing packets, but in
> complex filtering or traffic manipulation/packet sniffing, a PC might have
> the edge. :)
Yes, ipfw/dummy is very very cool. Like, inducing a few 100 msecs of
latency to folks who don't pay on time :)
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