Re: ISPs?
Robert Blayzor <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.isp |
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On Mar 19, 2009, at 1:29 PM, Christian Meutes wrote: > Ciscos new software platform, the ASR1000, does everything in > software. Its > in theory the perfect edge device, if it would be already bugfree > and would > have all the features and hardware support the others have. I > believe it routes > linerate 10GE, can has ACLs, QoS and all the sophisticated stuff > enabled at > the same time. I don't think that's true. I believe the ASR's are very hardware assisted by the route processor. (the control plane is completely isolated). I believe the SIP is what actually handles the forwarding via hardware. Also the fact you can do in-service software upgrades leads me to believe that router has hardware based forwarding as well. Line-rate 10GE with all the ACL's/QoS/MPLS/L2TP/encryption, etc. only in software would be very difficult to do in software without installing a furnace in the rack! ;-) -- Robert Blayzor, BOFH INOC, LLC [email protected] http://www.inoc.net/~rblayzor/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"