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Re: And Now for Something Completely Different (was Re: IPv6 news)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Baker)
Mon Oct 17 10:26:31 2005

In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0510171540470.24341@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 07:25:50 -0700
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


is that anything like using, in Cisco terms, a "fast-switching cache"  
vs a "FIB"?

On Oct 17, 2005, at 6:47 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
>> Well, let's try to turn the problem on its head and see if thats  
>> clearer; Imagine an internet where only your closest neighbors  
>> know you exist. The rest of the internet knows nothing about you,  
>> except there are mechanisms that let them "track you down" when  
>> necessary. That is very different from today's full-routing-table.

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