From owner-freebsd-net Thu Jul 19 13:56:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from merlot.juniper.net (natint.juniper.net [207.17.136.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38A1637B401 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 13:56:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pingpan@juniper.net) Received: from juniper.net (panther.juniper.net [172.17.12.226]) by merlot.juniper.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6JKtpH97759; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 13:55:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pingpan@juniper.net) Message-ID: <3B574957.97AE126E@juniper.net> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 13:55:51 -0700 From: Ping Pan Organization: Juniper Networks X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christophe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pr=E9votaux?= Cc: net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MPLS References: <20010719203448.27f86d69.c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sorry, there was no anger. I am not comfortable to see non-technical speculation on freebsd lists. I come on to the list to see what's cool lately in FreeBSD. If I want to gossip about company, Linux and market future etc., , I'd have gone to other lists.... Could we stop this thread now? Many thanks! - Ping "Christophe Prévotaux" wrote: > > oh oh , I did not say I would and I am quite incapable of implementing > MPLS, but I don't understand what triggered your anger at me ? > > On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 09:13:54 -0700 > Ping Pan wrote: > > > "Christophe Prévotaux" wrote: > > > > > > Of course one can argue that their software and their algorithms may also be better > > > implemented than a linux or freebsd solution, but that is not sure. > > > > OK. So why don't you stop speculating, implement it yourself and > > benchmark it against Junos? :-) > > Why are you so vindicative ? Don't you think such a thing as a FreeBSD MPLS implementation > could ever exists ? I consider it would be a good thing and I see no reason why in the end > it would not be equal or better than JunOS ? Can you explain why you think it is not possible ? > I mean apart from the fact that you work at Juniper and you are trying to defend their products > which in itself is understandable. > > At least I(we) could maybe learn something then . > > I know that a FreeBSD based MPLS solution can not rival with a Juniper Hardware > and that is not the point, but one could at least use any PCI based interface card > with it (even if it does not do 160 Gbps it would still be useful) > > > > > > Right now almost no one has interest in MPLS (except telcos and large operator or ISP) > > > but I am confident that this will change. > > > > > > > Will that change before or after we see your MPLS implementation? :-) > > unfortunately , I think you will never see it in this lifetime because > as I said earlier I don't the technical abilities to make such a implementation > and I won't even try to. But that does not mean I can't speak about it > after all we all live in free countries and all have the right to free speech > no ? > > > > > - Ping > > > > -- > =================================================================== > Christophe Prevotaux Email: c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr > HEXANET SARL URL: http://www.hexanet.fr/ > Z.A Farman Sud Tel: +33 (0)3 26 79 30 05 > 9 rue Roland Coffignot Direct: +33 (0)3 26 79 08 02 > BP415 Fax: +33 (0)3 26 79 30 06 > 51689 Reims Cedex 2 > FRANCE > =================================================================== > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message