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
I suppose that a 7000 with a SSP is considered "low end" gear then? It was *Vadim* who was complaining about CPU usage on your boxes, not me. Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)
Would you please refrain from attributing to me the things i did not say? Particularly i never said anything about "actual packet processing by the same CPU" here. I "complained" (heh i do not _complain_, i simply state the facts) about CPU usage by BGP updates. --vadim