What BGP issues are you talking about? As I understand it, The Netstar gigarouter simply runs gated (sort of). So you have the standard issues beween gated and Cisco, but that's it. Thanks. David Whipple.

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Nope, remember - there is no magic. Any mesh of PVCs that one makes over a switched network must reflect the toplogy of that network, and one can set up a matching set of active routing sessions and route weights which will cause traffic to flow the same way.

Yes, the switches are a bit faster and have less to do. Data moves through them in a few ms less per point. But as you said (and as I said in our discussion in NYC), relative to any distance, the speed of light guarantees that you won't notice the difference.

The question is: Will there be routers available that can make IP routing decisions based on 40-60kroutes and move 2-3 OC3s worth of bidirectional traffic? The building of the configs to have a routed network work the same as a switched ATM one can be automated, but it's true that it *can be* easier to see what's going on in a large-scale switched network.

Avi

Uh, yes. Like today.

See NetStar (recently acquired by ASCEND).

Their hardware does nothing *slower* than DS-3 right now, and updates the route forwarding table 20x/second. :-)

This thing is a monster, and will make the so-called "state of the art" 7513s look like dogmeat when in full production (presuming the BGP issues get completely resolved).

Coming soon to a network near you.

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