17 Sep
1997
17 Sep
'97
5:08 p.m.
At 05:35 PM 9/16/97 -0700, Taner Halicioglu wrote:
Well, how about thinking of it this way: Don't you just need to look at the header of a packet before deciding where to send it? Once you've parsed the header and determined the routing of the packet, you can start shoving it out the right pipe. :-)
My humor was too transparent. My frivolous analysis was of a latency problem that is already a second-order problem at today's bandwidths. Cut through takes it down to a third order problem. Thanks for all your comments. This note is entirely serious. --Kent