[45737] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: it's here
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Sprunk)
Thu Feb 14 03:31:43 2002
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From: "Stephen Sprunk" <ssprunk@cisco.com>
To: "Ron da Silva" <ron@aol.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 01:51:49 -0600
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Thus spake "Ron da Silva" <ron@aol.net>
> BOTH linerate filtering and packet inspection should be part of the
minimal
> requirements to sell routing hardware. Hmm...so in case any vendor out
there
> hasn't heard this directly from us, consider this a clarification of our
> requirements. And UUnet's...and ?? any other providers want to make sure
> that the vendor community gets the message here?
The people paying the bill often don't have the same concept of requirements
as the engineers.
Don't get me wrong -- I think you're right and all gear should be capable of
line-rate bi-directional filtering (and forwarding for that matter ;).
However, speaking in general terms, when presented with a box that can and a
box that can't, 90% of customers will end up buying the cheaper one, and
that dictates vendors' development priorities.
S
