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On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 04:42:16AM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: > 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. we've got a client who is playing with linux/390. it's such a ... anti-climax. it looks and smells just like linux on a pee cee. > .. 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? :-) i always thought the JUNOS was basically FreeBSD with the routing table code re-written. the remarks about freenix being able/unable to run at these speeds (hardware bus notwithstanding) seem out of place, as i think the real sleight-of-packet happens on hardware blades; the supervisory operating system doesn't play much of a part here. i'm sure many of us agree that Windows XP will be industrial-strength enough to do the job, too. ;-> -- Henry Yen Aegis Information Systems, Inc. Senior Systems Programmer Hicksville, New York
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