[103530] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Does TCP Need an Overhaul?" (internetevolution, via slashdot)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Sat Apr 5 01:16:08 2008
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 01:02:24 -0400
From: "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <48580.1207360287@sa.vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com> wrote:
> (i'd hate to think that everybody would have to buy roberts' (anagran's)
> Fast Flow Technology at every node of their network to make this work. that
> doesn't sound "inexpensive" to me.
I suppose he could try to sell it... and people with larger networks
could see if keeping state on a few million active flows per device is
'expensive' or 'inexpensive'. Perhaps it's less expensive than it
seems as though it would.
Oh, will this be in linecard RAM? main-cpu-RAM? calculated on
ASIC/port or overall for the whole box/system? How about deconflicting
overlapping ip-space (darn that mpls!!!) what about asymmetric flows?
I had thought the flow-routing thing was a dead end subject long ago?
-Chris
