[74489] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 10GE access switch router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frederic NGUYEN)
Tue Sep 28 17:14:14 2004
From: "Frederic NGUYEN" <fnguyen@t-online.fr>
To: "Erik Haagsman" <erik@we-dare.nl>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 23:09:41 +0200
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Thanks to everyone for your answers.
Actually it would only be an access switch router. BGP is not really necessary. OSPF or static routing would be just fine.
The most important need is wire-speed switching/routing capabilities and multicast support.
IPv6 support may also be of use.
Fred
----- Message d'origine -----
De : "Erik Haagsman" <erik@we-dare.nl>
À : "Frederic NGUYEN" <fnguyen@t-online.fr>
Cc : <nanog@merit.edu>
Envoyé : mardi 28 septembre 2004 22:54
Objet : RE: 10GE access switch router
Depending on what Layer 3 features you need you might check out Foundry's new FastIron Edge Switches, the FES4xx:
http://www.foundrynet.com/products/l23wiringcloset/fastiron/FESX424_X448.html
Don't support BGP afaik, but can run basic routing and OSPF quite well in a bit less than 2U. I'd expect a small formfactor NetIron
with 10GigE support to come out as well which could also solve your BGP issues (depending on the amount of traffic), though I doubt
any of their switches are able to route a full 10 GigE worth of traffic. Extreme also has a Summit doing this, with just about the
exact same features, though usually a bit more RAM (and buggier L3 code ;-)
Cheers,
Erik
