10GE access switch router

Wed Sep 29 12:15:20 UTC 2004

Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> The Summit 400 is an excellent L2 unit but a bad L3 unit. It is
> route-cache based with only a few thousand cache entries. Put more than a 
> thousand flows (flows=destination IPs) on it and it'll choke.

I don't promote or use Extreme in my networks, but I knew about the 
product.  He asked, so I just sent the link along.  All that was 
requested was 10G and 1U/2U... so there you have it.  I didn't reply to 
debate why Extreme sucks.

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Why do we want intelligent terminals when there are so many stupid users?