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RE: real hardware router VS linux router
From: "Bailey Stephen" <Stephen.Bailey () uk fujitsu com>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:51:51 -0000
Not sure if this has already been mentioned, but what about solid state hard drives? Think they are in the high GB capacity now and solves the problem of no moving parts? Although I'm all for hardware based devices, we recently been to Cisco to see the new Cisco ASR1000 switch uses an underlying Linux kernel :o Stephen Bailey - Senior Lead Systems Engineer Network Operations - ISP & DSL FUJITSU Fujitsu Services Limited, Registered in England no 96056, Registered Office 22 Baker Street, London, W1U 3BW This e-mail is only for the use of its intended recipient. Its contents are subject to a duty of confidence and may be privileged. Fujitsu Services does not guarantee that this e-mail has not been intercepted and amended or that it is virus-free. -----Original Message----- From: Brandon Galbraith [mailto:brandon.galbraith () gmail com] Sent: 20 February 2009 00:02 To: mike Cc: nanog () nanog org Subject: Re: real hardware router VS linux router On 2/19/09, mike <mike-nanog () tiedyenetworks com> wrote:
Steve Bertrand wrote:Ryan Harden wrote:While you could probably build a linux router that is just as fast
as a
real hardware router, you're always going to run into the moving
pieces
part of the equation.Not if you boot directly from USB key into memory with no disk drive. SteveI am sorry, but this is wrong. A USB Key is another 'PC Architecture'
that
DOES NOT WORK for network devices. There is NO positive mechanical
force to
keep that thing inserted, and the way a USB Key would hang off most
devices
with a USB port, would put it at very high risk for being accidentally bumped / disconnected. Secondly, there are still many many PC
Architecture
boxen that still do not boot correctly from USB.
I've used a hot glue gun to glue a USB key to the device/server/etc in question. Works very well against being bumped or accidentally dislodged. -brandon -- Brandon Galbraith Voice: 630.400.6992 Email: brandon.galbraith () gmail com
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- RE: real hardware router VS linux router Ray Burkholder (Feb 19)
- Re: real hardware router VS linux router Leen Besselink (Feb 20)
- Re: real hardware router VS linux router William Warren (Feb 19)
- Re: real hardware router VS linux router Leen Besselink (Feb 20)
- Re: real hardware router VS linux router Chris Adams (Feb 20)
- Re: real hardware router VS linux router Jack Bates (Feb 20)
- Re: real hardware router VS linux router Steve Bertrand (Feb 19)
- Re: real hardware router VS linux router mike (Feb 19)
- Re: real hardware router VS linux router Brandon Galbraith (Feb 19)
- RE: real hardware router VS linux router Bailey Stephen (Feb 20)
- Re: real hardware router VS linux router Nathan Ward (Feb 20)
- Re: real hardware router VS linux router William Hamilton (Feb 20)
- Re: real hardware router VS linux router Joe Greco (Feb 19)
- Re: real hardware router VS linux router Leen Besselink (Feb 21)
- Re: real hardware router VS linux router Adrian Chadd (Feb 21)
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