On Jul 13, 2010, at 10:58 PM, Joe Greco wrote: > It's interesting. One can get equally militant and say that hardware based > routers are irrelevant in many applications.
When BCPs are followed, they don't tend to fall over the moment someone hits them with a few kpps of packets - which should be a key criteria for an edge device. The same can't be said of software-based devices. If maintaining availability is important, then hardware-based (semantic hairsplitting aside) devices are a requirement. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <[email protected]> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com> Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. -- H.L. Mencken
