On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 04:17:49PM -0400, Dennis wrote:
> If thats so, then why do you have to spend $75,000. to do bandwidth
> managerment on a full T3 on a cisco router but you can do it on a
> reasonably powered PC quite easily?
All the talk about Linux as a router raises a few questions for me:
1) I noticed the array of HDLC and FR cards available from the links
on the linuxrouter.org's web site -- however, I'm curious how these
vendors have performed in heavy utilization?
2) I'm not sure I missed this -- but what about ATM support on a card?
3) My knowledge of the PC architecture is probably not the highest on
the list -- assuming a 100 MHz bus with 100Mhz SDRAM slots -- are
there any concerns on the actual bus performance? I know silly
question -- but are there any gotchas with other boards or vendors
who take shortcuts?
4) I have not seen anything yet on supporting a full BGP4 table in
a linux router -- granted for a PC I don't forsee this as being
a large problem since last I checked a full table was roughly 32
Meg -- but what I am wondering is -- how well is BGP supported in
Linux currently?
5) Has anyone actually done a set of benchmarks? :)
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Robert G. Fisher NEOCOM Microspecialists Inc.
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