From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Nov 21 14:47:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au [202.14.186.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E34214C2E for ; Sun, 21 Nov 1999 14:47:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Stanley.Hopcroft@ipaustralia.gov.au) Received: (from smap@localhost) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA78229; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 09:46:46 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from Stanley.Hopcroft@ipaustralia.gov.au) X-Authentication-Warning: pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au: smap set sender to using -f Received: from noteshub01.aipo.gov.au(10.0.100.21) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au via smap (V2.0) id xma078217; Mon, 22 Nov 99 09:46:28 +1100 Received: by noteshub01.aipo.gov.au(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.3 (778.2 1-4-1999)) id 4A256830.0082A8BF ; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 09:47:08 +1000 X-Lotus-FromDomain: IP_AUSTRALIA From: Stanley.Hopcroft@ipaustralia.gov.au To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Cc: Fred.Schelb@ipaustralia.gov.au, carl@xena.aipo.gov.au, Doug.Jackson@ipaustralia.gov.au Message-ID: <4A256830.0082A772.00@noteshub01.aipo.gov.au> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 09:47:12 +1000 Subject: Juniper M40 router (FreeBSD based kernel) wins Data Communications high end router comparison Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org cc: Fred Schelb, carl@xena.aipo.gov.au, Doug Jackson Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, I am writing to say that the Asia Pacific September edition of "Data Communications" carried a review of high end routers in which the Juniper networks M40 was not only the winner by default but earned the respect of the testers (Mandeville & Nrewamn ?) for it's . forwarding rates . recovery from route flap . scalability The ariticle expected about a dozen vendors of high end (multiple OC-48 interfaces) routers from vendors such as Cisco Torrent N-Base etc to supply product; they allocated almost a column to describing how Cisco wimped out of testing the GSR 1200. The M40 uses custom ASIC for forwarding and FreeBSD variant for running the routing protocols and box management. Thank you, Yours sincerely. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message