Getting a "portable" /19 or /20
Adrian Chadd
adrian at creative.net.au
Tue Apr 10 20:42:16 UTC 2001
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001, Roeland Meyer wrote:
>
> > From: Majdi S. Abbas [mailto:msa at samurai.sfo.dead-dog.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 1:20 PM
>
> > Please let me know when your Linux box is capable of doing
> > line rate forwarding on an OC-192.
>
> I actually saw a Linux box capable of doing this. It was on IBM S/390
> hardware. Admitedly, that would be a waste of horsepower. OC-192 is far to
> slow to keep that box busy.
.. actually, if only the PCI bus were faster, I'm sure someone
could build a GigE linerate router running under FreeBSD or Linux.
OC192 would probably want something a little more dedicated than
a PCI bus. But then, thats what a Juniper is for, right? :-)
Adrian
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