[74494] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 10GE access switch router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Blayzor)
Wed Sep 29 08:17:57 2004
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:15:20 -0400
From: Robert Blayzor <rblayzor@inoc.net>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0409282259330.7442-100000@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> 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.
I don't promote or use Extreme in my networks, but I knew about the
product. He asked, so I just sent the link along. All that was
requested was 10G and 1U/2U... so there you have it. I didn't reply to
debate why Extreme sucks.
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Why do we want intelligent terminals when there are so many stupid users?
