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Re: Getting a "portable" /19 or /20

  • From: Adrian Chadd
  • Date: Tue Apr 10 17:13:17 2001 
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001, Roeland Meyer wrote:
> 
> > From: Majdi S. Abbas [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 1:20 PM
> 
> > 	Please let me know when your Linux box is capable of doing 
> > line rate forwarding on an OC-192.  
> 
> I actually saw a Linux box capable of doing this. It was on IBM S/390
> hardware. Admitedly, that would be a waste of horsepower. OC-192 is far to
> slow to keep that box busy.

.. actually, if only the PCI bus were faster, I'm sure someone
could build a GigE linerate router running under FreeBSD or Linux.

OC192 would probably want something a little more dedicated than
a PCI bus. But then, thats what a Juniper is for, right? :-)



Adrian

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