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At 11:00 AM 8/15/95, Dave Siegel wrote: >Let's excuse the fact that gated consumes more memory than a cisco for the >same amount of routes for a second... > >Okay, so let's talk functionality. > >Are there HSSI PCI cards available? Can you do SMDS over this card? Frame? >What about a DS3 ATM card, or higher? And Paul Traina wrote something vaguely similar. I think you guys are both missing what I think was Jon's original point: Routers forward packets faster than PCs, but the forwarding function and the routing protocol function do not have to reside on the same box. You can add a PC (workstation, whatever) which runs the routing protocol and stuffs routes into the router. It doesn't have to support the link-layer du jour. Ethernet will do the job just fine. As I recall the original discussion was of colocating a router, to forward packets, with a workstation, to compute routes. --John
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