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[ On Wednesday, August 29, 2001 at 10:06:48 (-0400), Leo Bicknell wrote: ] > Subject: Re: What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes) > > Don't even get me started on the discussion of why they were custom > designing a board for the route processor, when there are off the > shelf motherboards, or if it must fit in a form factor, motherboard > designs that would be less costly for them, use all off the shelf > parts, and would allow them to bring things to market quicker. Take a look inside a Juniper router -- you should be pleasantly surprised by the very standard CompacPCI processor board you'll find inside of it that, among a few other things, does the route processing.... and it's running mostly stock FreeBSD no less.... even with a root prompt you can get at! > There was no reason for those past failures. It was a combination > of bean counters, cluelessness, and lazyness. Interestingly some of the Juniper engineers are ex-Cisco from what I know.... > The routing table > is growing slower than the number of lines of code in Windows, and > god help us if we can make Windows "work" we should be able to do > some simple routing. Aint that the truth! -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 218-0098 VE3TCP <[email protected]> <[email protected]> Planix, Inc. <[email protected]>; Secrets of the Weird <[email protected]>
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