[82224] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Sat Jul 9 09:55:34 2005
To: Alexei Roudnev <alex@relcom.net>
Cc: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>,
NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>, Brad Knowles <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 09 Jul 2005 00:56:29 PDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 09:55:00 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 00:56:29 PDT, Alexei Roudnev said:
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> It's chiken and egg problem. They do not have 4 Gb, because they do not need
> it_now_. techbnically it is not a problem even today.
> Small RAID systems have 1 Gb RAM easily.
>
> Line cards do not need so much memory - they can always cache routing
> tables.
Two words: "cache miss". And unlike a L1/L2 cache miss in a modern PC, where
the CPU will *wait* for you to fill the cache line, the other end of that OC-192
is still in firehose mode....
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