[66698] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Nachi/Welchia Aftermath
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donovan Hill)
Wed Jan 21 03:43:02 2004
From: Donovan Hill <lists@lazyeyez.net>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 00:42:25 -0800
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401210905010.3237-100000@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wednesday 21 January 2004 12:07 am, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Donovan Hill wrote:
> > Where do the Extreme and Juniper fit into this?
>
> Juniper do not make L3-switches so they dont really compare.
>
Others have said that too, but given where Junipers are used, I think they
sneak into the same category as the Cisco 6500/7600s and other high-end L3
switches.
> Extreme i-plattform is currently destination ip based with inital cache
> lookup. (guess this is flow based)
I guess I just don't understand the architecture. What I really don't
understand is _why_ you'd bother with flow-based architecture over
prefix-based architecture..... am I looking green yet?
(If this isn't appropriate on-list, then feel free to reply off-list.)
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Donovan Hill
Electronics Engineering Technologist, CCNA
www.lazyeyez.net, www.gwsn.com
