Cogent service

Tue Sep 24 18:42:00 UTC 2002

> Really?  Then I guess Juniper made a mistake chopping every packet 
> into 64 byte packets ;-)  .  From a hardware standpoint, it speeds up 
> the process significantly.  Think of a factory with a cleaver machine, 
> it knows exactly where to chop the pieces because there is a rhythm.  
> It takes no "figuring out."  By chopping up everything into set sizes 
> you dont need to "search" for headers or different parts of the 
> packet.  It's always at a "set" byte number.  Well Ive done a poor job 
> of explaining it, but it does speed things

Oh? No search for headers or parts? That probably explains why they had 
such difficulties to get the packets out in the same order as they came 
in...

- kurtis -