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Vyatta as a BRAS
- Subject: Vyatta as a BRAS
- From: rdobbins at arbor.net (Dobbins, Roland)
- Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:35:45 +0000
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
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On Jul 15, 2010, at 10:23 PM, Joe Greco wrote:
> For example, for a provider whose entire upstream capacity is 1Gbps, I have a hard time seeing how a Linux- or FreeBSD-based box could credibly be claimed not to be a suitable edge router.
Because it can and will be whacked quite easily by anyone who packets it, either deliberately or inadvertently. I've seen too many software-based routers fall over with far, far less traffic than 1gb/sec to think otherwise.
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