20 Jul
1996
20 Jul
'96
4:04 a.m.
On Fri, 19 Jul 1996, Avi Freedman wrote:
I assume that the mondo-routers have a switching engine, and the only job of the main CPU/gated combo is to feed the current idea of the best next-hop/interface to the engine.
Current mondo-routers like Netstar uses a switch fabric to parallelise switching. It becomes pretty obvious that at OC-N speeds current serial backplane architecture doesn't scale
Handling routing updates, unlike switching packets, is more a function of CPU and software routines.
and the last time i worked on a netstar gigarouter (admittedly months ago) it was a long way from really doing solid routing (bgp, etc). maybe it's much improved now? -brett
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