[103540] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Does TCP Need an Overhaul?" (internetevolution, via slashdot)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Moyle-Croft)
Sat Apr 5 07:45:01 2008
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:13:57 +1030
From: Matthew Moyle-Croft <mmc@internode.com.au>
To: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
CC: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <47F75842.6070008@internode.com.au>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Reworded:
What I'm not quite sure "Fast Flow" is exactly what is it really doing
that isn't being done already by the DPI vendors (eg. Cisco SCE2000 on
the Cisco webpage claims to be able to track 2million unidirectional
flows).
>
> Am I missing something?
Aside from my horribly broken attempt at English?
:-)
MMC
> MMC
>
> Paul Vixie wrote:
>
> ...
>>
>> i wouldn't want to get in an argument with somebody who was smart and
>> savvy
>> enough to invent packet switching during the year i entered
>> kindergarden,
>> but, somebody told me once that keeping information on every flow was
>> *not*
>> "inexpensive." should somebody tell dr. roberts?
>>
>> (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.
>>
>
