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Re: gigabit router (was Re: Getting a "portable" /19 or /20)
From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz () csh rit edu>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 10:02:50 -0400
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 05:16:15PM -0400, Kavi, Prabhu wrote:
Vendors have known how to solve this problem for many years. Failure to do so is a poor implementation and has nothing to do with centralized forwarding being better/worse than distributed forwarding.
It _does_ show that distributed forwarding will be significantly more complex and more difficult to implement. I am not arguing that distributed forwarding is a bad thing; on the contrary, it has a logical and demonstrated performance benefit. However, it comes with a cost in overall system complexity. -- - mdz
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