jamal wrote:
to nit: Its no longer about routing or bridging, friend. Thats like getting
fries at mcdonalds.
1GE/10GE - for $5?
I'm first in the shoping queue!!!-)))
Since I see no reasonable out-come of this discussion I left it.
TOE as I see - since my company utilizes several of them - are too
different and too specialized to application/protocols. And yes - price
of development/deployment maters too. Linux support for those protocols
is inmature. It cannot handle or requirements even software-wise. I'm
not talking about timing requirements - linux network in general is not
(even soft) real-time.
My personal flame-meter is out of scale ;-)
I shall join the discussion back when I will see any real ideas.
> If all you wanted was to do L3 - why not just buy a $5 chip that
> can do this for a lot more interfaces? Why sweat over
> optimizing L3 routing in a 3K space?
We are doing not a teapot, and high level spec for this code takes
around 15 pages.
3k - it is not optimized - we have limit around 2GB ;-)
It just takes only 3k. And it handles some special (read -
proprietary) functions too - some bugs of some other pieces of hardware.
NPU does all stuff by itself, but sometimes we need to extract
configuration information which is direct to us, for example.
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