RE: sell shell accounts?

[David Whipple <dwhipple () microsoft com>]

What BGP issues are you talking about? As I understand it, The Netstar
gigarouter simply runs gated (sort of).  So you have the standard issues
beween gated 
and Cisco, but that's it.

Thanks.
David Whipple.

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> From:  Karl Denninger, MCSNet[SMTP:karl () mcs com]
> Sent:  Friday, July 19, 1996 2:34 PM
> To:    freedman () netaxs com
> Cc:    vansax () atmnet net; richards () netrex com; agislist () interstice com;
> nanog () merit edu
> Subject:       Re: sell shell accounts?
>
> > Nope, remember - there is no magic.  Any mesh of PVCs that one makes
> > over a switched network must reflect the toplogy of that network, and
> > one can set up a matching set of active routing sessions and route
> > weights which will cause traffic to flow the same way.
> >
> > Yes, the switches are a bit faster and have less to do. Data moves through 
> > them in a few ms less per point.  But as you said (and as I said in our
> > discussion in NYC), relative to any distance, the speed of light guarantees
> > that you won't notice the difference.
> >
> > The question is:  Will there be routers available that can make IP
> > routing decisions based on 40-60kroutes and move 2-3 OC3s worth of 
> > bidirectional traffic?  The building of the configs to have a routed
> > network work the same as a switched ATM one can be automated, but it's
> > true that it *can be* easier to see what's going on in a large-scale 
> > switched network.
> >
> > Avi
>
> Uh, yes.  Like today.
>
> See NetStar (recently acquired by ASCEND).
>
> Their hardware does nothing *slower* than DS-3 right now, and updates the
> route forwarding table 20x/second. :-)
>
> This thing is a monster, and will make the so-called "state of the art"
> 7513s look like dogmeat when in full production (presuming the BGP issues
> get completely resolved).
>
> Coming soon to a network near you.
>
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