I agree that one cpu does all is outdated monolithic design.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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