On Fri, 20 Dec 1996, Tony Li wrote:
You should be more specific about _why_ you want a MUCH bigger CPU. IMHO, the box needs more packet switching capacity (and more backplane bandwidth), but there's enough CPU there for the OS.
Recomputing larger route tables, especially OSPF. Tunneling. Encryption. Acess list filtering. Finer grain accounting (I'd love to see usage stats for each interface over a day or so right from the router). And most important to me, not becoming unusuable during a major routing change. How many of us have seen a 7513 take 20 seconds to log into and then 15 seconds to respond to a command during a circuit outage that forced a major route recomputation? This is when we most need to see which BGP sessions, OSPF sessions, and interfaces are still up and maybe even do a 'show logging'. David Schwartz