Jeroen Massar adds to the unfounded router/switch FUD: > If you are desperatly still wanting anything from Foundry then > indeed go for a NetIron, this is what AMS-IX uses. But do note, they > don't do routing.
What do you mean "they don't do routing"? I already conceded that Real Men don't call them a router. If you get over this, it's quite hard to say they don't route. OK, hopefully the AMS-IX one doesn't route, because the AMS-IX should be a layer-2 affair. Our old NI400s did OSPF, BGP-4, PIM-SM quite nicely. Took them a while to implement MP-BGP (for IPv4 Multicast) but eventually they added that too. > Also review the tech-l list of the last year to see that these boxes > have stabilized a bit, with a lot of effort from Foundry, over the > last year. Before that they where not much good ... > If you want Routing get a Juniper. > Oh and also keep in mind that one day you might want to do IPv6 ;) > And guess what Foundry doesn't and Cisco does kind-of and Juniper does > quite well... Have you checked out http://www.foundrynet.com/products/routers/netiron/ni40g.html?referrer=stupid-simon-still-arguing-with-real-men ? It talks very clearly about hardware forwarding for IPv6 packets. It even states how many entries the forwarding tables on the line cards can take (512k IPv4 or 128k IPv6 - the "or" hints at the fact that they have TCAM-based forwarding, so hopefully they can also support combinations in-between, like 384k IPv6+32k IPv6 prefixes). -- Simon. _______________________________________________ swinog mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.init7.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
