FYI Netflix is down

[ahebert at pubnix.net (Alain Hebert)]

     Hi,

     Well depending on your "black box", your millage will vary.

     Their wide use of ASIC eliminate a lot of the headache of pure 
software implementation.

         Buffer, timing, expected results, etc.

     Their "real" sofware only represent a small part of the device and 
is mostly relegated to management and some L4 to L7 handling.

     So yes, ASIC/FPGA devices have "software" their result and behavior 
are predictable and the system is more stable because of it.

     PS: Yes, CAM lockout, bad RAM is still a pita for them.

In short:

     It is quite a thing to say that because everything can be 
categorized as "software" that someone point is invalid.

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On 07/09/12 07:42, gb10hkzo-nanog at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> Steve at pirk,
>
> I fail to grasp the concept in your argument.
>
> You do realise, do you not, that your $$$$$ black boxes from your favourite brand name vendor have software running inside of them do you not ?
>
> Case in point for example, the recent LINX issues.... it wasn't the hardware that gave them the headaches, but the software running on it sure did !
>
>> I am a big believer in using hardware to load balance data centers, and not
>> leave it up to software in the data center which might fail.
>