[46028] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Telco's write best practices for packet switching networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Fri Mar 8 09:47:03 2002
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 09:45:36 -0500
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To: Ron da Silva <ron@aol.net>
From: Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org>
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On Friday, March 8, 2002, at 08:39 , Ron da Silva wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 04:48:49AM +0000, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
>>
>> ...I don't think I can put it any more clearly. There has got
>> to be a push from the USERS of this equipment (not just one user, all
>> users) to get line rate, full packet filtering capability on ALL
>> interfaces on EVERY router, everything from the smallest foundry or
>> 1700
>> to the largest 12416 or M160 or Avici. If users don't start asking for
>> this 2 years ago it'll be another 4-5 years before its a reality. The
>> vendors will NOT push forward on this without a significant cash
>> incentive
>> (like everyone saying: I need this so do it for me).
>
> So it appears that we are in agreemnet after all! :-) (And we've been
> saying the above for at least 4 years now...)
Since at least one vendor has got the message and ships hardware that
*will* do line-rate filtering on high-speed interfaces, perhaps the
answer is to modulate vendor selection accordingly. There's a
significant cash incentive, for you, or at least a significant non-cash
disincentive.
Joe
