From: Howard C. Berkowitz (hcb@gettcomm.com)
Date: Sat Apr 03 2004 - 23:35:35 GMT-3
At 9:13 PM -0500 4/3/04, Peter van Oene wrote:
>>Do we even want to bring up the not-as-widely-used-in-production
>>these days, but still occasionally useful for special applications
>>and definitely for such things as Internet traffic research, the
>>route server? A route server does no forwarding whatsoever.
>>Typically, it's a UNIX box at an exchange point, running RSD
>>software. What can be a heavy processing load for a router control
>>plane can be pretty modest for a decent UNIX box with lots of
>>memory.
>
>I've built MPLS VPN networks with dedicated Route Reflectors doing
>purely BGP reflection for VPNv4. In this case, these are routers
>and not route servers per se, but they tend to do pretty much the
>same thing.
I said powerful UNIX box. How does that exclude Juniper? :-)
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