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RE: What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes)
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 20:59:34 +0200 (CEST)
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, John Ferriby wrote:
Look back. Routers have always lagged _WAY_ behind most other computer technology in terms of processor power, RAM, and general
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Gawd. This so true. Back in the moldy old days when DECnet was far more common, Digital brought out a dedicated router. VAXen were the common systems and host based routing of DECnet was very common. What hardware platform did they use? PDP 11/24. Early ciscos (pre AGS/AGS+/MGS/CGS/Trouter/IGS) were based on SUN hardware. Once cisco "customized" their Motorola-based platform the state-of- the-art slowed dramatically. SUN went the way of Sparc and cisco hung out with CISC/680x0 chips until the life cycle of the 680x0 was nearly dead.
It's even worse than that: as far as I know, they never used the 68060 or even 68040 CPUs. These puppies are a LOT faster than a 68030.
Current thread:
- RE: What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes), (continued)
- RE: What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes) Roeland Meyer (Aug 28)
- Re: What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes) Kevin Loch (Aug 28)
- RE: What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes) Martin, Christian (Aug 28)
- Re: What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes) Sean M. Doran (Aug 29)
- Re: What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes) Leo Bicknell (Aug 29)
- Re: What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes) up (Aug 29)
- Re: What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes) Andrew Partan (Aug 29)
- Re: What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes) Leo Bicknell (Aug 29)
- Re: What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes) Randy Bush (Aug 29)
- RE: What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes) John Ferriby (Aug 29)
- RE: What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes) Iljitsch van Beijnum (Aug 29)
- RE: What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes) John Ferriby (Aug 29)
- RE: What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes) David Luyer (Aug 29)
- Re: What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes) Leo Bicknell (Aug 29)
- RE: What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes) Dan Hollis (Aug 29)
- RE: What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes) Roeland Meyer (Aug 28)
- Re: What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes) Greg A. Woods (Aug 29)
- Re: What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes) Leo Bicknell (Aug 29)
- Re: What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes) Randy Bush (Aug 29)
- Re: What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes) John Fraizer (Aug 30)
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- Re: What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes) Philip Smith (Aug 30)