PC Routers (was Re: /24s run amuck)

Fri Jan 16 08:15:00 UTC 2004

As I remember, it used commercial gated.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nicole" <nmh at daemontech.com>
To: "Vadim Antonov" <avg at kotovnik.com>
Cc: <nanog at merit.edu>; <alex at pilosoft.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 7:02 PM
Subject: Re: PC Routers (was Re: /24s run amuck)

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> On 15-Jan-04 Unnamed Administration sources reported Vadim Antonov said :
> >
> > On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 alex at pilosoft.com wrote:
> >
> >> Getting to 1mpps on a single router today will probably be hard.
However,
> >> I've been considering implementing a "clustered router" architecture,
> >> should scale pps more or less linearly based on number of "PCs" or
> >> "routing nodes" involved. I'm not sure if discussion of that is
on-topic
> >> here, so maybe better to take it offline.
> >
> > This is exactly what Pluris PC-based proof-of-concept prototype did in
97.
> > PCs were single-board 133MHz P-IIs, running custom forwarding code on
bare
> > metal, yielding about 120kpps per board, or 1.9Mpps per cage.
> >
> > In the production box CPU-based forwarding was replaced with ASICs,
1Gbps
> > hybrid optical/electrical butterfly/hypercube interconnect was replaced
> > with 12Gbps optical hypercube interconnect, otherwise architecture was
> > unchanged.  That was a total overkill which was one of the reasons the
> > company went down.
> >
> > --vadim
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>  I used to work with an Ascend GRF (goes real fast) Router that was
nothing
> more than a hacked BSD os running on a hard drive at first then they moved
to a
> flash card that controlled some custom switching hardware. But all the
> functions were via the BSD os and I think it just used Gated.
>
>  Sounds very similiar.
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>   Nicole
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