Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 12:48:58 -0500 () From: Bradley Dunn <bradley@dunn.org> To: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: changed to: Frac T3? Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.3.95.961116124539.-512999s-100000@swoosh.dunn.org> In-Reply-To: <199611161542.KAA13490@etinc.com>
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On Sat, 16 Nov 1996, dennis wrote: > >On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, dennis wrote: > > > >> What I was saying was that I dont thing unix can route a steady > >> 86Mbs data stream, so a full T3 on a unix box may very well be > >> overkill. > > > >Hmmm...Apparently you are not aware of the Ascend GRF 400. > >http://www.ascend.com/products/grf400/grf400index.html > > Perhaps you haven't read it yourself? They are certainly not running anything > similar to standard unix....they "cheat" by maintaining on-board caches so > packets don't have to pass through the IP layer, as BSD design requires. > Certainly you can do something similar for BSD systems, but it won't > be a standard release O/S afterwards. Such things are OK if you are building > a special-function system, but non highly desireable for general purpose O/Ss Exactly, but you seemed to be saying that unix could not route at that speed. The Ascend embedded OS is a hacked unix. It uses gated, but you could in fact use anything that writes to the unix routing socket. I call that unix. -BD
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