10 Apr
2002
10 Apr
'02
10:51 a.m.
Peter, For basic Internet style routeing you are probably correct [and possibly even more true for MPLS style switching/routeing], but these days customers demand different classes of service and managed data and bandwidth services over IP. These requires lots of packet hacking and for that you need bufferss. If you need any type of filtering done thats remotely intelligent you need somewhere to process those packets especially when you are running 10G interfaces. Regards, Neil. -- Neil J. McRae - Alive and Kicking neil@DOMINO.ORG