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Re: sell shell accounts?
- From: Brett D. Watson
- Date: Sat Jul 20 04:25:52 1996
> On Fri, 19 Jul 1996, Avi Freedman wrote:
>
> > I assume that the mondo-routers have a switching engine, and the
> > only job of the main CPU/gated combo is to feed the current idea
> > of the best next-hop/interface to the engine.
>
> Current mondo-routers like Netstar uses a switch fabric to parallelise
> switching. It becomes pretty obvious that at OC-N speeds current serial
> backplane architecture doesn't scale
>
> Handling routing updates, unlike switching packets, is more a function of CPU
> and software routines.
and the last time i worked on a netstar gigarouter (admittedly months ago) it was a long way from really doing solid routing (bgp, etc). maybe it's much improved now?
-brett
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