it's here

Thu Feb 14 08:41:00 UTC 2002

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of
Stephen Sprunk
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 2:52 AM
To: Ron da Silva; nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Re: it's here

Thus spake "Ron da Silva" <ron at aol.net>
> BOTH linerate filtering and packet inspection should be part of the
minimal
> requirements to sell routing hardware.  Hmm...so in case any vendor out
there
> hasn't heard this directly from us, consider this a clarification of our
> requirements.  And UUnet's...and ??  any other providers want to make sure
> that the vendor community gets the message here?

The people paying the bill often don't have the same concept of requirements
as the engineers.

Don't get me wrong -- I think you're right and all gear should be capable of
line-rate bi-directional filtering (and forwarding for that matter ;).
However, speaking in general terms, when presented with a box that can and a
box that can't, 90% of customers will end up buying the cheaper one, and
that dictates vendors' development priorities.

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This also is related to concept that most vendors [when creating a box that
does and a box that doesn't] don't charge anywhere near in line for the cost
of inputs [hardware, design, software, etc] for the additional feature
[assuming profit is already built into the original price of the box that
doesn't].

Deepak Jain
AiNET