[ On Wednesday, August 29, 2001 at 10:06:48 (-0400), Leo Bicknell wrote: ]
Subject: Re: What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes)
Don't even get me started on the discussion of why they were custom designing a board for the route processor, when there are off the shelf motherboards, or if it must fit in a form factor, motherboard designs that would be less costly for them, use all off the shelf parts, and would allow them to bring things to market quicker.
Take a look inside a Juniper router -- you should be pleasantly surprised by the very standard CompacPCI processor board you'll find inside of it that, among a few other things, does the route processing.... and it's running mostly stock FreeBSD no less.... even with a root prompt you can get at!
There was no reason for those past failures. It was a combination of bean counters, cluelessness, and lazyness.
Interestingly some of the Juniper engineers are ex-Cisco from what I know....
The routing table is growing slower than the number of lines of code in Windows, and god help us if we can make Windows "work" we should be able to do some simple routing.
Aint that the truth! -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 218-0098 VE3TCP <gwoods@acm.org> <woods@robohack.ca> Planix, Inc. <woods@planix.com>; Secrets of the Weird <woods@weird.com>