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Re: 10GE access switch router

  • From: Robert Blayzor
  • Date: Wed Sep 29 08:21:04 2004

Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
The Summit 400 is an excellent L2 unit but a bad L3 unit. It is
route-cache based with only a few thousand cache entries. Put more than a thousand flows (flows=destination IPs) on it and it'll choke.

I don't promote or use Extreme in my networks, but I knew about the product. He asked, so I just sent the link along. All that was requested was 10G and 1U/2U... so there you have it. I didn't reply to debate why Extreme sucks.

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Why do we want intelligent terminals when there are so many stupid users?