Re: Nexus emulation? Anyone?

2011-12-20 Thread David Sinn
I don't think anyone is asking for a full simulation of the platform in software, that is how the actual ASIC's operate. That is probably best for an entirely different conversation. But there is huge need to simulate the control-plane functionally with a basic forwarding ability (not performa

Re: Nexus emulation? Anyone?

2011-12-20 Thread David Sinn
quot;I was a normal American nerd" > -Jack Herer > > > > On 12/20/2011 12:19 PM, David Sinn wrote: >> I don't think anyone is asking for a full simulation of the platform in >> software, that is how the actual ASIC's operate. That is probably best for >

Re: an effect of ignoring BCP38

2008-09-05 Thread David Sinn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't think you will get any argument that the vast majority of CS departments teach theory and not as much valid practice when it comes to networking. Though, being formally at the UW, I can tell you that they wouldn't have been able to spoo

Re: Distributed Router Fabrics

2024-12-24 Thread David Sinn
From experience I can tell you that once you fully operationalize the pizza box model you will never go back to the chassis model. Why would you trade, open, standards based model for interconnect (OSPF and BGP work great at scale) for proprietary black boxes that do stupid router tricks to make