I stand corrected.. I think of them as software routers cause my friends in IOS dev at cisco call them that..
and I get to test out EMM tcl scrips on it.. so I think of it as a software router.. Do good stuff Dan On Jul 8, 2011, at 7:04 AM, fooler mail wrote: > On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 12:55 AM, Dan Sweeney <[email protected]> wrote: >> Again. this thread should move to PHNOG. >> >> Ahh but... >> >> Most of Cisco IOS is developed on VXR 7200 NG-1 and NG-2 platforms.. and >> those are basically an intel boxes (software routers).. >> >> I run two 7200's doing some heavy duty lifting BGP wise and CPU utilization >> averages less than 4% (Full feeds, metric buttload of community strings, >> route-maps and some nifty pearl scripts). >> >> Even though the NG-1's and NG-2'a are dual and quad core boxes Cisco in >> their benevolence has not implemented code for using any secondary cores.. >> Might as well be a Pentium. > > nope.. ng-1 is based on 700 MHz Broadcom BCM1250 processor... its a > dual-core 64bit MIPS processor... > > http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/modules/ps3931/product_data_sheet09186a00800c6bd6_ps341_Products_Data_Sheet.html > > ng-2 is based on 1.67-GHz Motorola Freescale 7448 processor... its a > e600 PowerPC core processor.. > > http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/routers/ps341/product_data_sheet0900aecd8047177b.html > > of course any router hardware has its own software.. but i was talking > here using a pc based router versus a real router with a dedicated > hardware (like ng-1 and ng2 as your example)... > > i was thinking as hosting provider... you should start a minimum of > 1gbps port on every layer2 and layer3 switches... 100mbps is not > enough for demanding *broadband* clients... with that.. you need a > good dedicated hardware with higher PPS of routing and forwarding > speed... > > fooler. > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
