William Warren wrote:
On 2/19/2009 9:37 AM, Ryan Harden wrote: While you could probably build a linux router that is just as fast as a real hardware router, you're always going to run into the moving pieces part of the equation.
In almost all scenarios, moving parts are more prone to failure than non-moving parts.
Regardless of what you find out in your research, consider the above in your cost-benefit analysis.
/Ryan
Deric Kwok wrote:
Hi All
Actually, what is the different hardware router VS linux router?
Have you had experience to compare real router eg: cisco VS linux router?
eg: streaming speed... tcp / udp
Thank you for your information
ssd's remove the spindle from the equation..otherwise they both have fans that do fail.
And I had a ticket from a few months ago with one of our transit-providers because they had a Juniper router reboot, it turned out this was because a harddisk failure of one of the routing engines. So 'real'-routers have those moving parts as well. ;-)