On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 05:10:12PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 15:33:19 CDT, Randall Perry said: > > > Even for producing less than 500 units there are vendors ready to jump at > > the > > chance to replace FPGA setups (because we are talking about complex 2k+ > > gate count). > > More like 2M+ gate count. Remember, you have to do BGP4 in silicon. ;) >
maybe I am wrong, but with high end switchrouter I thought that routing protocols are handled by IOS by the cpu - after calculated, the topology is programmed in e.g. TCAM memory. imho no fpgas here. please correct me. greets jk _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
