We have been working on breaking up the monolithic routing model on Unix workstations. I will be speaking more about this at NANOG, but see http://www.ra.net/routing.arbiter/RT/mrt.html The code and documentation are early alpha. There will probably be a public alpha release sometime around the next NANOG. - Craig -- Craig Labovitz labovit@merit.edu Merit Network, Inc. (313) 764-0252 (office) 1071 Beal Ave, Ann Arbor, MI (313) 747-3745 (fax) Michael F. Nittmann writes:
To: Tony Li <tli@cisco.com> Cc: karl@mcs.com, avg@sprint.net, avg@sprint.net, nanog@merit.edu, rps@ISI.EDU, salo@msc.edu Subject: Re: Has PSI been assigned network 1? In-Reply-To: <199504280712.AAA00290@greatdane.cisco.com> Message-Id: <Pine.BSD.3.91.950428114053.28003D-100000@muffin.wis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
I agree that one cpu does all is outdated monolithic design. Even hub vendors have two: one for hubbing, one for snmp and rmon.
Mike
On Fri, 28 Apr 1995, Tony Li wrote:
The equipment available today is designed foolishly -- route update processing and actual packet processing should NEVER be done by the same CPU -- but it is -- and as such you're dead when this happens.
Lest anyone believe this, it's bullshit.
Karl just buys low end gear and then complains because it's not high end gear.
Tony
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