Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 13:08:32 -0500 From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) To: Bradley Dunn <bradley@dunn.org> Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: changed to: Frac T3? Message-ID: <199611161808.NAA14281@etinc.com>
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Bradley Dunn writes.... > >> >On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, dennis wrote: >> > >> >> What I was saying was that I dont thing unix can route a steady >> >> 86Mbs data stream, so a full T3 on a unix box may very well be >> >> overkill. >> > >> >Hmmm...Apparently you are not aware of the Ascend GRF 400. >> >http://www.ascend.com/products/grf400/grf400index.html >> >> Perhaps you haven't read it yourself? They are certainly not running anything >> similar to standard unix....they "cheat" by maintaining on-board caches so >> packets don't have to pass through the IP layer, as BSD design requires. >> Certainly you can do something similar for BSD systems, but it won't >> be a standard release O/S afterwards. Such things are OK if you are building >> a special-function system, but non highly desireable for general purpose O/Ss > >Exactly, but you seemed to be saying that unix could not route at that >speed. The Ascend embedded OS is a hacked unix. It uses gated, but you >could in fact use anything that writes to the unix routing socket. I call >that unix. Hacked_unix != unix. Its severely hacked. Cisco IOS is hacked unix also.... but its hardly comparable. If you are asking if unix could be modified to work, then the answer is certainly. but it would cease to be the same product....which is the point I was making. Dennis
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