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

  • From: Michel Py
  • Date: Thu Jan 15 02:25:56 2004

> Deepak Jain wrote:
> With a network boot OS for each POP, you can do
> version control much much more easily.

This is seriously flawed, IMHO. I'd encourage my competitors to do it:
after the master image gets corrupted all it takes is a bozo tripping
the right circuit breaker and the entire POP is kaput.

> QOS, priority/custom queueing are all KERNEL/underlying
> OS functions.

This also is flawed, IMHO. What if you want to do queing or QOS based on
BGP?

Michel.





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