The CIX and the NSFNET regionals - a dilemma

Marty,

Leveraging off another posting elsewhere, I was wondering how hard it would be for cisco to change their architecture to have multiple routing tables and slightly modify their protocol prioritization scheme so that telnet/rlogin is not just prioritized but goes out a different path (specifically the CIX path).

In general, TOS support in routers is pretty easy, though it may not be in Cisco's case depending on how they designed their fast switching stuff. In theory, of course, Cisco is adding TOS support since they are adding OSPF and TOS is a part of OSPF, but I don't know whether theory matches practice in this case (it doesn't in the case of some other OSPF vendors). Philip