On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Matei Conovici wrote:
Lots of types interfaces? EIGRP? Things that Linux/PC does have is Hard drives that fail, etc; I guess you could do a flash thing, though. Other protocols, like IPX, Dec, ATalk, etc are not going to happen.
Will you please point out other router than cisco which has EIGRP ?
My point exactly.
What kind of interface do you want ? You have async (multiport async), sync, ethernet, fddi and now atm is coming. BTW, do you get arcnet with cisco ? :-)
HSSI?
IPX and appletalk have been there for a _long_ time. There is also a Linux DECNET project.
Great, another *project*.
Also, for a long time, Linux had a hard time with lots or routes.
Define lots. You want full BGP table in a PC router ? Why :) ?
Isn't that the crux of the conversation here?
*shit. You have no clues. Linux was better at networking than BSD even in 1.2.x days ...
Heh. Ok. (as in, *yeah right*).
All the limitations of the Linux/PC router are due to the PC hardware architecture. As seen on the list, people put 8 cards in the same PC. This exceeds the bus speed of a PC. Even a single 100Mbps NIC kills the PCI bus in most PCs should it run full speed. Also, you have to be very carefull with the NIC you choose.
Thus, omre reason to not use a PC for routing.. This was hashed and rehashed not to long ago on some mailing list (inet-access?)... Whay again?
PCs simply were not built for forwarding packets and fast I/O.
Again, thanks for agreeing.
Of course a Linux/PC will never beat a cisco :-) but the cost is sometimes an order of magnitude lower for roughly the same performance.
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