[address-policy-wg] Policy proposal: #gamma IPv6 Initial Allocation Criteria

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

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