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Re: Loadsa ICMP...


From: Tony Li <tli () juniper net>
Date: 13 Aug 1997 14:01:50 -0700


jcgreen () netins net (Jon Green) writes:

That's my point.  The answer is to get rid of the concept of an
RSP completely.  A box with a central CPU is never going to scale as well
as a distributed processor design no matter how many MHz you throw at it.

Seems like the real answer is to get rid of the processor.  Why are we
still using generic hardware to do packet forwarding, anyways?

Tony


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