On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 14:48, Ihar 'Philips' Filipau wrote:
> 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!!!-)))
>
I thought you were talking about a 2 Gige interface doing routing, no?
Do the math: Dell will happily sell you a (managed?) switch which has
8Giges on it for about $300. It does wire rate on all 8 interfaces. All
ready to go in a 1U form factor. How much do you think that chip costs?
Lets say it doesnt do L3, how much more do you think it will cost to do
L3 in quantities?
> 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.
>
Now this is anti-social talk;-> Why do you need to have realtime for any
of this stuff?
> My personal flame-meter is out of scale ;-)
> I shall join the discussion back when I will see any real ideas.
>
Please dont dissapear, a lot of questions need answers;->
>
> > 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 ;-)
I am really confused now. We must be talking about different class of
devices. NPUs as i know them are very limited in how much code you can
stash them. In the 10K ranges is already overkill.
Do you have any URL i can look at on what you are describing?
> 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.
Please provide me a pointer if you can - I am very interested in the 2G
code space you mention.
cheers,
jamal
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