Re: Vyatta as a BRAS

[Brett Frankenberger <rbf+nanog () panix com>]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 07:13:46AM +0930, Mark Smith wrote:
> This document supports that. If the definition of a software router is
> one that doesn't have a fixed at the factory forwarding function, then
> the ASR1K is one.

The code running in the ASICs on line cards in 6500-series
chassis isn't fixed at the factory.  Same with the code running on the
PFCs in those boxes.  There's not a tremendous amount of flexibility to
make changes after the fact, because the code is so tightly integrated
with the hardware, but there is some.

(Not saying the 6500 is a software-based platform.  It's pretty clearly
a hardware-based platform under most peoples' definition.  But:  the
line is blurry.)

     -- Brett