Aaron Glenn wrote:
On 7/28/08, Seth Mattinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Junpier's J-series is a BSD based platform as far as I understand it.
ImageStream is *much* more affordable for me, but is Linux-based, and I fear
...snip...
AFAIK, none of Juniper's Juniper kit rocks BSD outside of the
management interfaces and control plane (not even sure about the
latter, tbh).
someone feel free to correct me...
In the M/T series, control plan is handled by the RE, and the forwarding
by the ASICs on each PIC.
in the J series, the control and forwarding plane are controlled by the
RE, although the forwarding plane has a real time thread in the BSD
kernel (or so Juniper says it does).