[98991] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "2M today, 10M with no change in technology"? An informal survey.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris L. Morrow)
Mon Aug 27 23:33:46 2007
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 03:06:07 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Chris L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com>
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0708272259560.30395@soloth.lewis.org>
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
Cc: "John A. Kilpatrick" <john@hypergeek.net>, nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Jon Lewis wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Chris L. Morrow wrote:
> >
> > I thought it was just a 6500 that sommeone got drunk and tipped over on
> > it's side, like a cow...
>
> And tagged with some white paint.
>
> Though if you've kept up with the latest IOS developments, cisco is
> finally differentiating the platforms we've assumed for years were only
> different in angle and paint. 6500's won't get to run the newest 7600
> code.
Oh poor cow :( In all seriousness though, most routing platforms have
their costs and benefits. The 7600/6500 do some things nicely, apparently
large FIB's aren't their strength though (in most deployed configs
atleast).
-Chris
