Re: Has PSI been assigned network 1?

[Craig Labovitz <labovit () merit edu>]

We have been working on breaking up the monolithic routing model on
Unix workstations.

I will be speaking more about this at NANOG, but see
http://www.ra.net/routing.arbiter/RT/mrt.html

The code and documentation are early alpha. There will probably
be a public alpha release sometime around the next NANOG.

- Craig

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Michael F. Nittmann writes:
> To: Tony Li <tli () cisco com>
> Cc: karl () mcs com, avg () sprint net, avg () sprint net, nanog () merit edu, rps () ISI EDU,
>         salo () msc edu
> Subject: Re: Has PSI been assigned network 1?
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> I agree that one cpu does all is outdated monolithic design.
> Even hub vendors have two: one for hubbing, one for snmp and rmon.
>
> Mike
>
>
> On Fri, 
> 28 Apr 1995, Tony Li wrote:
>
> >    The equipment available today is designed foolishly --
> >    route update processing and actual packet processing should NEVER be done by
> >    the same CPU -- but it is -- and as such you're dead when this happens.
> >
> > Lest anyone believe this, it's bullshit.
> >
> > Karl just buys low end gear and then complains because it's not high
> > end gear.
> >
> > Tony
>
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