[12462] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: I found the missing 30 milliseconds!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent W. England)
Wed Sep 17 13:45:26 1997
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 10:08:52 -0700
To: Taner Halicioglu <taner@isi.net>
From: "Kent W. England" <kwe@geo.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970916172909.3934e-100000@buffy>
At 05:35 PM 9/16/97 -0700, Taner Halicioglu wrote:
>
>Well, how about thinking of it this way: Don't you just need to look at
>the header of a packet before deciding where to send it? Once you've
>parsed the header and determined the routing of the packet, you can start
>shoving it out the right pipe. :-)
>
My humor was too transparent. My frivolous analysis was of a latency
problem that is already a second-order problem at today's bandwidths. Cut
through takes it down to a third order problem.
Thanks for all your comments. This note is entirely serious.
--Kent
