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As I remember, it used commercial gated. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicole" <[email protected]> To: "Vadim Antonov" <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 7:02 PM Subject: Re: PC Routers (was Re: /24s run amuck) > > > On 15-Jan-04 Unnamed Administration sources reported Vadim Antonov said : > > > > On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 [email protected] wrote: > > > >> Getting to 1mpps on a single router today will probably be hard. However, > >> I've been considering implementing a "clustered router" architecture, > >> should scale pps more or less linearly based on number of "PCs" or > >> "routing nodes" involved. I'm not sure if discussion of that is on-topic > >> here, so maybe better to take it offline. > > > > This is exactly what Pluris PC-based proof-of-concept prototype did in 97. > > PCs were single-board 133MHz P-IIs, running custom forwarding code on bare > > metal, yielding about 120kpps per board, or 1.9Mpps per cage. > > > > In the production box CPU-based forwarding was replaced with ASICs, 1Gbps > > hybrid optical/electrical butterfly/hypercube interconnect was replaced > > with 12Gbps optical hypercube interconnect, otherwise architecture was > > unchanged. That was a total overkill which was one of the reasons the > > company went down. > > > > --vadim > > I used to work with an Ascend GRF (goes real fast) Router that was nothing > more than a hacked BSD os running on a hard drive at first then they moved to a > flash card that controlled some custom switching hardware. But all the > functions were via the BSD os and I think it just used Gated. > > Sounds very similiar. > > > Nicole > > > > > > > |\ __ /| (`\ > | o_o |__ ) ) > // \\ > - [email protected] - Powered by FreeBSD - > ------------------------------------------------------ > " Daemons" will now be known as "spiritual guides" > -Politically Correct UNIX Page > > "Witchcraft is in essence the worship of the powers of this world, > beautiful and terrible, but all in a circle under the turning sky > that is the One." -C.A. Burland, "Echoes of Magic" > > "Connecting with energy is something humans have to be open > to and talking about and expecting, otherwise the whole human > race can go back to pretending that life is about power over others > and exploiting the planet. If we go back to doing this, > then we won't survive." -James Redfield, "The Celestine Prophecy" >
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