[74487] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 10GE access switch router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Tue Sep 28 17:04:08 2004
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 23:01:43 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4159CC80.1060809@inoc.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Robert Blayzor wrote:
> Frederic NGUYEN wrote:
> > Is anyone of you awared of the existence of an access switch router
> > (L2/L3) with GE interfaces and 10GE uplinks? I'm looking for something
> > small (around 1U to 2U). Is there any vendor selling such a product?
>
> http://www.extremenetworks.com/libraries/prodpdfs/products/Summit400_DS.asp
The Summit 400 is an excellent L2 unit but a bad L3 unit. It is
route-cache based with only a few thousand cache entries. Put more than a
thousand flows (flows=destination IPs) on it and it'll choke.
--
Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
