Re: Vyatta as a BRAS

["Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins () arbor net>]

On Jul 13, 2010, at 10:58 PM, Joe Greco wrote:

> It's interesting.  One can get equally militant and say that hardware based routers are irrelevant in many 
> applications. 


When BCPs are followed, they don't tend to fall over the moment someone hits them with a few kpps of packets - which 
should be a key criteria for an edge device.

The same can't be said of software-based devices.

If maintaining availability is important, then hardware-based (semantic hairsplitting aside) devices are a requirement.

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