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Re: it's here
From: "Stephen Sprunk" <ssprunk () cisco com>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 01:51:49 -0600
Thus spake "Ron da Silva" <ron () aol net>
BOTH linerate filtering and packet inspection should be part of the
minimal
requirements to sell routing hardware. Hmm...so in case any vendor out
there
hasn't heard this directly from us, consider this a clarification of our requirements. And UUnet's...and ?? any other providers want to make sure that the vendor community gets the message here?
The people paying the bill often don't have the same concept of requirements as the engineers. Don't get me wrong -- I think you're right and all gear should be capable of line-rate bi-directional filtering (and forwarding for that matter ;). However, speaking in general terms, when presented with a box that can and a box that can't, 90% of customers will end up buying the cheaper one, and that dictates vendors' development priorities. S
Current thread:
- Re: it's here, (continued)
- Re: it's here Jesper Skriver (Feb 13)
- Re: it's here Eric Brandwine (Feb 13)
- Re: it's here kevin graham (Feb 13)
- Re: it's here Jesper Skriver (Feb 13)
- Re: it's here Jake Khuon (Feb 13)
- Re: it's here Steve Noble (Feb 13)
- RE: it's here Tony Hain (Feb 13)
- Re: it's here Eric Brandwine (Feb 13)
- Re: it's here Christopher L. Morrow (Feb 13)
- Re: it's here Ron da Silva (Feb 13)
- Re: it's here Stephen Sprunk (Feb 14)
- RE: it's here Deepak Jain (Feb 14)