18 Jul
2010
18 Jul
'10
8:01 p.m.
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 07:13:46AM +0930, Mark Smith wrote:
This document supports that. If the definition of a software router is one that doesn't have a fixed at the factory forwarding function, then the ASR1K is one.
The code running in the ASICs on line cards in 6500-series chassis isn't fixed at the factory. Same with the code running on the PFCs in those boxes. There's not a tremendous amount of flexibility to make changes after the fact, because the code is so tightly integrated with the hardware, but there is some. (Not saying the 6500 is a software-based platform. It's pretty clearly a hardware-based platform under most peoples' definition. But: the line is blurry.) -- Brett