Has PSI been assigned network 1?
Craig Labovitz
labovit at merit.edu
Fri Apr 28 16:31:23 UTC 1995
We have been working on breaking up the monolithic routing model on
Unix workstations.
I will be speaking more about this at NANOG, but see
http://www.ra.net/routing.arbiter/RT/mrt.html
The code and documentation are early alpha. There will probably
be a public alpha release sometime around the next NANOG.
- Craig
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Craig Labovitz labovit at merit.edu
Merit Network, Inc. (313) 764-0252 (office)
1071 Beal Ave, Ann Arbor, MI (313) 747-3745 (fax)
Michael F. Nittmann writes:
> To: Tony Li <tli at cisco.com>
> Cc: karl at mcs.com, avg at sprint.net, avg at sprint.net, nanog at merit.edu, rps at ISI.EDU,
> salo at msc.edu
> Subject: Re: Has PSI been assigned network 1?
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> I agree that one cpu does all is outdated monolithic design.
> Even hub vendors have two: one for hubbing, one for snmp and rmon.
>
> Mike
>
>
> On Fri,
> 28 Apr 1995, Tony Li wrote:
>
> >
> > The equipment available today is designed foolishly --
> > route update processing and actual packet processing should NEVER be done by
> > the same CPU -- but it is -- and as such you're dead when this happens.
> >
> > Lest anyone believe this, it's bullshit.
> >
> > Karl just buys low end gear and then complains because it's not high
> > end gear.
> >
> > Tony
> >
>
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