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Re: Nachi/Welchia Aftermath
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 11:45:51 +0100 (CET)
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Donovan Hill wrote:
I guess I just don't understand the architecture. What I really don't understand is _why_ you'd bother with flow-based architecture over prefix-based architecture..... am I looking green yet?
Since these boxes are priced around $3000-$4000 or so and have multiple gig ports and loads of 10/100 ports, they make a nice edge/distribution box. Extreme I-chipset stuff talk ISIS, OSPF and BGP just fine and have 128 megs of memory, and they do L2/L3 at wirespeed (once the flow is set up). The L2 is interesting since then you can use it for basically everything and not L2 or L3, but both in the same box and on the same links. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike () swm pp se
Current thread:
- Re: Nachi/Welchia Aftermath, (continued)
- Re: Nachi/Welchia Aftermath haesu (Jan 21)
- Re: Nachi/Welchia Aftermath Richard A Steenbergen (Jan 21)
- Re: Nachi/Welchia Aftermath Paul Vixie (Jan 21)
- Re: Nachi/Welchia Aftermath haesu (Jan 21)
- Re: Nachi/Welchia Aftermath Donovan Hill (Jan 20)
- Re: Nachi/Welchia Aftermath Rubens Kuhl Jr. (Jan 20)
- Re: Nachi/Welchia Aftermath Stephen J. Wilcox (Jan 20)
- Re: Nachi/Welchia Aftermath Mikael Abrahamsson (Jan 21)
- Re: Nachi/Welchia Aftermath Donovan Hill (Jan 21)
- Re: Nachi/Welchia Aftermath Tom (UnitedLayer) (Jan 21)
- Re: Nachi/Welchia Aftermath Mikael Abrahamsson (Jan 21)
- Re: Nachi/Welchia Aftermath Richard A Steenbergen (Jan 20)
- Re: Nachi/Welchia Aftermath Tom (UnitedLayer) (Jan 20)
- Re: Nachi/Welchia Aftermath John Lyons (Jan 21)
- Re: Nachi/Welchia Aftermath Rafi Sadowsky (Jan 21)
- Re: Nachi/Welchia Aftermath sthaug (Jan 21)
- Re: Nachi/Welchia Aftermath Rubens Kuhl Jr. (Jan 21)
- Re: Nachi/Welchia Aftermath Mikael Abrahamsson (Jan 21)