Vyatta as a BRAS
Brett Frankenberger
rbf+nanog at panix.com
Mon Jul 19 00:01:56 UTC 2010
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
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