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On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Jo Rhett <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Linksys, D-Link, SMC, etc are able to pull it off on the layer 3 >>>> switches sold at Fry's for a couple benjamins a pop. :) >>> > >> I am. All of these boxes can forward packets at line rate, and list >> for a fraction of the price of the Force 10 S-Series. > > > You and I (and any real network operator) must have different definitions of > "forward at line rate". "forwards a gig-e full of 64 byte packets, random src/dst, when you hook a smartbits/ixia up to it" is mine. What's yours? Mind you, this is probably one of the more useless metrics for vendor selection these days, and nobody has a major problem with it. Drive Slow, Paul Wall
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