[address-policy-wg] Policy proposal: #gamma IPv6 Initial Allocation Criteria
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Daniel Roesen
dr at cluenet.de
Tue Apr 5 15:55:52 CEST 2005
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 03:49:59PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > >>I'm not sure what the cheapest router is that can handle a full table > >>today, but I'm pretty sure it's more expensive than what one that > >>could > >>10 years ago cost then (ie a Cisco 2501). > > >A 50-EUR-off-Ebay PC can do that easily. > > As Randy is fond of saying: I invite my competitors to do this. > > My experience with PC hardware routers is that they're fast and > powerful, and fail 10 times as often as "real" routers so all the money > you save on hardware is eaten up by operational expenses. That was just a comment to finally arrive HERE: > >And even if you go to the > >"off-the-shelf-real-routers" (actually not "routers", but "optimized > >forwarders with routing component") then you can have them quite > >cheaply... looking at JNPR J-Series and Cisco 1800 series that should > >be doable well below 2000 EUR. My point is that the ROUTING (BGP) thing isn't the problem. Providing quick forwarding is what you pay huge amounts of money for. Regards, Daniel -- CLUE-RIPE -- Jabber: dr at cluenet.de -- dr at IRCnet -- PGP: 0xA85C8AA0
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