Re: IPv6 adoption
Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Bolan Meek wrote:
>
> > Current routers do not do things "in hardware", but in RAM, with the OS
> > loaded from Flash/EEPROM. They are merely special-purpose computers.
> > If I recall accurately, the last Cisco 2500 I had open was based on
> > a 68030. We're not forgetting the routing capabilities of Linux, are
> > we?
> This is not completely true.. Modern high end ciscos have a CPU and
> a few FPGAs. The FPGAs are hardware devices that do all the extermely high
> speed switching required, the CPU mearly configures and monitors the FPGAs.
^^^^^^^^^
Are we confusing the router module with the switching hub modules? I'm
familiar with Cisco 5500, 6000, used in Intranets, with ?x100B-TX
Etherchannel
backbones, but not with the models used for the Internet OC-192
backbone.
> Linux has routing capabilities, but it won't compare to a cisco if you try
> to feed it 8 gigabit ethernet lines :>
Hmmm... I'd like to come up with benchmarks for SMP Linux/Alpha or even
PIII on PC120 (?) for top throughput... or, has someone already done
this?
(redirected from -devel to -ipv6)
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