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Re: CIDR FAQ
From: jgs () aads net (John G. Scudder)
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 15:12:30 -0400
At 11:00 AM 8/15/95, Dave Siegel wrote:
Let's excuse the fact that gated consumes more memory than a cisco for the same amount of routes for a second... Okay, so let's talk functionality. Are there HSSI PCI cards available? Can you do SMDS over this card? Frame? What about a DS3 ATM card, or higher?
And Paul Traina wrote something vaguely similar. I think you guys are both missing what I think was Jon's original point: Routers forward packets faster than PCs, but the forwarding function and the routing protocol function do not have to reside on the same box. You can add a PC (workstation, whatever) which runs the routing protocol and stuffs routes into the router. It doesn't have to support the link-layer du jour. Ethernet will do the job just fine. As I recall the original discussion was of colocating a router, to forward packets, with a workstation, to compute routes. --John
Current thread:
- Re: CIDR FAQ, (continued)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Arnold Nipper (Aug 16)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Paul A Vixie (Aug 16)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Yakov Rekhter (Aug 16)
- Re: CIDR FAQ bmanning (Aug 16)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Randy Bush (Aug 16)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Jon Zeeff (Aug 16)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Yakov Rekhter (Aug 16)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Paul Traina (Aug 16)
- Re: CIDR FAQ peter (Aug 16)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Tony Li (Aug 16)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Dave Siegel (Aug 15)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Nicolas Williams (Aug 15)
- Re: CIDR FAQ bmanning (Aug 15)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Nicolas Williams (Aug 15)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Nathan Stratton (Aug 15)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Nicolas Williams (Aug 15)
- Re: CIDR FAQ Dave Siegel (Aug 15)