On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Neil Cherry wrote:
azeem ahmad wrote:
From: Neil Cherry <ncherry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
azeem ahmad wrote:
i dont need a gigabit, rather i want 100Mbps.
The WRT has 10/100 Mbps interfaces, the Cisco routers up to
the 2811 have 10/100 interfaces. If you need to have 6 or 7
different interfaces you won't find that on a consumer grade
router (the WRT).
Technically there is no such thing though Cisco seems to be one
of the closest to approach that. I think I know what you mean
though (not a PC).
Mr Neil Cherry do u mean that there isnt any such hardware that enable
ip_forwarding between those networks.
My apology for bringing up this subject, sometimes I am too
picky for my own good.
Correct there is always software involved hence no such thing as
a hardware router. It's a minor quibble, some Cisco routers have
hardware (ASICs) that accelerates routing. I would expect this to
be true in any of the larger router platforms from any vendor.
One more thing, firmware is just software in a chip. I don't
consider that strictly hardware.
I guess my quibble is really for naught as there is also no
such things as a strict software router since there must be
hardware to support it. Maybe it's best to define this as
a dedicated router (a Cisco router) vs a non-dedicated router
( a PC with router software).
two kinds of routers...
Devices in which the forwarding and control plane are converged. That's
wrt54g, imagestream, cisco 2600, cisco 7200, my dekstop etc.
Devices in which the forwarding and control-planes are seperated. ie
there's a control-plane processor, and then an asic or processor based
forwarding engine in an interface/line-card. That's cisco 7500/gsr/hfr,
juniper Mxxx, procket, etc. These tend to scale as the backplane grows or
more interfaces are added while the control-plane remains substantially
unchanged.
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