On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 03:20:07PM -0700, Michel Py wrote:
You get it backwards. It is in the best interest of the router cartel to continue riding Moore's law forever and end up with a billion entries in the routing table which would allow them to keep renewing the installed router base every other year because naturally they cap memory and CPU in every model for the sole of being able to sell you a stinkin' new one two years later. And yes I am a stockholder of the router cartel.
This depends of your choice of vendor. Vendor J's routers took "only" a 266MHz CPU and 256M RAM (please correct me if I'm wrong here with the historic data) a couple of years back, but now you can put a new routing engine with 600MHz and 2G RAM into them without buying a whole new router and interfaces. And I guess when the next generation of REs comes out, you can put them into all boxes down to the smallest one [of the series] as well. People might want to consider such things in their shopping checklist. Not every vendor plays those games (to this extend). Regards, Daniel