From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Nov 16 10:02:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA10365 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 16 Nov 1996 10:02:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw-fr1.etinc.com [204.141.244.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA10358 for ; Sat, 16 Nov 1996 10:02:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from ntws (ntws.etinc.com [204.141.95.142]) by etinc.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA14281; Sat, 16 Nov 1996 13:08:32 -0500 Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 13:08:32 -0500 Message-Id: <199611161808.NAA14281@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Bradley Dunn From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Subject: Re: changed to: Frac T3? Cc: isp@freebsd.org Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Bradley Dunn writes.... > >> >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. Hacked_unix != unix. Its severely hacked. Cisco IOS is hacked unix also.... but its hardly comparable. If you are asking if unix could be modified to work, then the answer is certainly. but it would cease to be the same product....which is the point I was making. Dennis