Michael Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I'm looking for statements from several router vendors that look much > > > > like this: > > > > > > I don't speak for Cisco. I speak for myself. > > > > > > Sorry. > > > > Well, speaking for yourself, can you describe your simulations of > > hardware performance with and without the flow label? > > I'm not especially interested in this game > because some hardware geek somewhere is > bound to throw enough transistors at the > problem and claim that it doable. Big deal.
"I'm not interested in this game" = "I don't care to give evidence for my position -- I'm just going to assert something is needed." "Hardware geek" = "people that make the routers actually work these days, and without whom all of us would be up the creek." > I have witnessed firsthand hardware engineers on high end > platforms react somewhere between disbelief and outright > hostility at the prospect of chasing down header chains at line > rate. Given the fact that IPv6 headers have to be processed in some circumstances by routers -- and perhaps most of the time in the future -- it would seem that they're going to have to cope with their disbelief. Of course, it appears that folks from several vendors already have coped with this disbelief and have working hardware. -- Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- NetBSD Development, Support & CDs. http://www.wasabisystems.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
