Re: Nachi/Welchia Aftermath

["Tom (UnitedLayer)" <tom () unitedlayer com>]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Donovan Hill wrote:
> > Extreme i-plattform is currently destination ip based with inital cache
> > lookup. (guess this is flow based)
>
> I guess I just don't understand the architecture. What I really don't
> understand is _why_ you'd bother with flow-based architecture over
> prefix-based architecture..... am I looking green yet?

Cheap + Legacy.
Some gear doesn't want to die :)