William Warren wrote: > On 2/19/2009 9:37 AM, Ryan Harden wrote: > While you could probably build a linux router that is just as fast as a > real hardware router, you're always going to run into the moving pieces > part of the equation. > > In almost all scenarios, moving parts are more prone to failure than > non-moving parts. > > Regardless of what you find out in your research, consider the above in > your cost-benefit analysis. > > /Ryan > > Deric Kwok wrote: > >>>> Hi All >>>> >>>> Actually, what is the different hardware router VS linux router? >>>> >>>> Have you had experience to compare real router eg: cisco VS linux >>>> router? >>>> >>>> eg: streaming speed... tcp / udp >>>> >>>> Thank you for your information >>>> > >> >>
> ssd's remove the spindle from the equation..otherwise they both have > fans that do fail. And I had a ticket from a few months ago with one of our transit-providers because they had a Juniper router reboot, it turned out this was because a harddisk failure of one of the routing engines. So 'real'-routers have those moving parts as well. ;-)
