[10751] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NSPs and filters
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Sun Jul 13 17:36:00 1997
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 14:23:53 -0700
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>
To: avg@pluris.com, dts@proteon.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Daniel Senie <dts@proteon.com> wrote:
>Would you care to explain just exactly WHY a CAM type architecture could
>not filter packets WHILE BEING RECEIVED from a given type of wire? This
>is NOT an unsolveable problem. Perhaps you've been blinded by the
>current architecture of the equipment you've invested in to date.
I didn't say this problem is not "solveable". I said that the
solution is known, but to my knowledge nobody implemented
or plans to implement it in hardware (and for several good reasons,
too).
--vadim
