[84621] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: image stream routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lincoln Dale)
Sat Sep 17 20:51:17 2005
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 10:49:32 +1000
From: Lincoln Dale <ltd@interlink.com.au>
To: "Edward B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0509180037160.25616@pop.ict1.everquick.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
right. what i'm pointing out is that if Imagestream routers really ARE
capable of >OC12 (and perhaps multiple of them) then its unlikely its
s/w-based forwarding.
once again - i claim no clue on how Imagestream work. but i am very
familiar with linux. and router/switch architecture.
cheers,
lincoln.
Edward B. Dreger wrote:
> LD> Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 16:18:28 +1000
> LD> From: Lincoln Dale
>
>
> LD> [without having looked at Imagestream in any way, shape or form..]
> LD>
> LD> it would be _unlikely_ that any router vendor that wants to support >OC3
> LD> could do so with the 'standard' (non-modified) linux IP stack. if they are
> LD> modifying the 'standard' linux IP stack then its very unlikely that one
> LD> could do so without having to publish the source-code to it. (i.e. as per
> LD> GPL).
>
> Linux, reportedly with custom RIB/FIB code.
>
> IANAL, but gpl-violations.org strikes me as interesting. A court order
> not to ship product is rather serious...
>
> (For those who didn't follow the link, no such injunction has been
> granted against IS. However, other embedded-Linux OEMs have not been so
> lucky.)
>
>
> Eddy
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