20 Dec
1996
20 Dec
'96
3:34 p.m.
Tunneling. Acess list filtering. Finer grain accounting (I'd love to see usage stats for each interface over a day or so right from the router). Both of these are switching functions. Encryption. This really should be specialized hardware. Recomputing larger route tables, especially OSPF. This is interesting. I would be interested to know what a system with adequate switching and sufficient division between switching and forwarding will do. I suspect that the CPU is big enough if the switching problem is solved. And most important to me, not becoming unusuable during a major routing change. Ditto. Tony