routing meltdown

Tim Bass bass at linux.silkroad.com
Fri Aug 11 21:26:38 UTC 1995


> 
> >What you want is something that isn't the Internet or even
> >a hop-by-hop destination-based connectionless packet network,
> >but rather something akin to X.25 or ATM.
> 
> >	Sean.
> 
> ...which requires even more state kept in gateways, and
> therefore more CPU required to maintain that state.
> 
> Film at 11.
> 
> --vadim
> 

CPUs are cheap.  One 133 MHz Pentium cost less than either of
us make in a day.....  In six months, even cheaper.

Tim




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