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RE: gigabit router (was Re: Getting a "portable" /19 or /20)
From: mike harrison <meuon () highertech net>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 23:24:17 -0400 (EDT)
Dual/Quad 1Ghz PIIIs, anyone?
For routers, single fast CPU's, fast ram and fast PCI buses work wonders, hence my liking the Alpha processor systems. Mostly because of a really good PCI bus. On other lists the discussions get real technical as to why, and a dual 800+ system is fast enough it does not matter... but unless the code (Zebra/Gated/Routed) is designed to use multi-processors, it does not help the router deamon. It will free up resources for other tasks. In playing around I summarize the differences as: *nix boxen routers: Decent Hardware, Great OS, more than enough CPU/RAM cheap to make up for differences in most cases. Purpose built systems: GREAT hardware, Minimal OS tuned for the application at hand (routing). Funny thing is, I am typing this on a roof, using a 200mhz Linux boxen with 2 nics used for wireless network routing... using SSH and Xwindows while it routes packets for 2.4ghz DSSS and some 23ghz (10mbps fdx) analog traffic. It's a great night to be babysitting the network... I think as hardware and software evolve over time, all of these arguments will fade into volatile ram.
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- RE: gigabit router (was Re: Getting a "portable" /19 or /20) Roeland Meyer (Apr 10)
- RE: gigabit router (was Re: Getting a "portable" /19 or /20) mike harrison (Apr 10)
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