Re: MAE-West is up again (Sun's & Alphas)

[Tim Bass (@NANOG-LIST) <nanog () linux silkroad com>]

Paul writes:

> Your message addressed platform performance, not network operations.
> My reply is mostly just about network operations.

To be sure, you are correct.  My subliminal message was more-than-likely
something like this:

"There is very little justification for being single threaded in
 network operations in today's very inexpensive, high performance,
 UN*X world.' (IYKWIM)

So, the issue, does not really appear to be "Router Servers: Are
They A Good Thing, Yes or No"? as implied in a much earlier post,
but more an architecutural issue, single threaded configurations,
and so forth.

Even 'experimental, non-operational' (whatever that really means in
the real world.... use at your own risk) services such as RA could
easily and cheaply have some redundancy built in at a very moderate
cost in todays world.


Back to Saturday,  Best Regards,

Tim

Side note to Gordon Cook based on his contribution earlier:

Gordon, just a little barb to you, please do not take it personally,
but.. "is your current trip to Russia also funded by the NSF similar to
your previous trip"? ( inquiring minds want to know ;-)

Whoops! There I go again, standing in the corner, just losing my
religion.... Oh well, I said too much, I haven't said enought....

                                Micheal Stipe, REM.






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