[98585] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [ppml] too many variables
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cat Okita)
Mon Aug 13 19:01:13 2007
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:14:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: Cat Okita <cat@reptiles.org>
Reply-To: Cat Okita <cat@reptiles.org>
To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
cc: Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com>, ppml@arin.net, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20070813142532.GA32490@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> It seems to me an off the shelf PC with a Core 2 Duo processor, 4
> gig of memory, and a gigabit ethernet port would be 1-2 orders of
> magnitude faster than what's currently in the routers. Optimize
> for a multithreaded CPU, add a second and it would converge really
> fast. My own experience is that zebra / quagga blow away the
> performance of any router out there as long as you don't ask them
> to install the routes in the kernel (which is really slow in a
> general purpose OS).
Isn't this mostly where we started? I could have sworn the first 'routers'
weren't exactly specialized devices...
cheers!
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