[4018] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Access to the Internic Blocked
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Curtis Villamizar)
Wed Sep 4 16:08:57 1996
To: Sean Doran <smd@chops.icp.net>
cc: curtis@ans.net, Vadim Antonov <avg@quake.net>, nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: curtis@ans.net
In-reply-to: Your message of "04 Sep 1996 11:08:20 EDT."
<xoienkiiahn.fsf@chops.icp.net>
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 15:53:19 -0400
From: Curtis Villamizar <curtis@ans.net>
In message <xoienkiiahn.fsf@chops.icp.net>, Sean Doran writes:
> Curtis Villamizar <curtis@ans.net> writes:
>
> > There are routers that handle {LS}SRR at near full speed. Stuffing it
> > on the broken path in is a bug. Fast-path/broken-path
> > is just a bug.
>
> I'm not sure I agree, particularly in the case where
> "broken-path" involves delegating work to another
> processor.
Whenever you discover that in your design you risk sending
5,000-10,000 little delegations of work per second from one processor
to another and taking the entire box down in the process it is time to
seriously consider whether you've made the right design decisions.
That's all.
Curtis
