29 Jul
2008
29 Jul
'08
3:38 a.m.
Aaron Glenn wrote:
On 7/28/08, Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us> wrote:
Junpier's J-series is a BSD based platform as far as I understand it. ImageStream is *much* more affordable for me, but is Linux-based, and I fear
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AFAIK, none of Juniper's Juniper kit rocks BSD outside of the management interfaces and control plane (not even sure about the latter, tbh).
someone feel free to correct me...
In the M/T series, control plan is handled by the RE, and the forwarding by the ASICs on each PIC. in the J series, the control and forwarding plane are controlled by the RE, although the forwarding plane has a real time thread in the BSD kernel (or so Juniper says it does).