[66700] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Nachi/Welchia Aftermath
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom (UnitedLayer))
Wed Jan 21 04:58:02 2004
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 01:57:28 -0800 (PST)
From: "Tom (UnitedLayer)" <tom@unitedlayer.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200401210042.25684.lists@lazyeyez.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Donovan Hill wrote:
> > Extreme i-plattform is currently destination ip based with inital cache
> > lookup. (guess this is flow based)
>
> I guess I just don't understand the architecture. What I really don't
> understand is _why_ you'd bother with flow-based architecture over
> prefix-based architecture..... am I looking green yet?
Cheap + Legacy.
Some gear doesn't want to die :)
