From: "Masataka Ohta" <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
To: "Mike Hammett" <nanog@ics-il.net>
Cc: "nanog list" <nanog@nanog.org>, "Matthew Walster" <matthew@walster.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2023 7:00:07 AM
Subject: Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

Mike Hammett wrote:

> " With plain IP routers?"

> Yes, or, well, relatively plain, depending on the implementation.

As completely plain routers have no difficulty to treat a
default route, it is a waste of money and effort to try to
have not so plain routers to do so regardless of whether the
routers are SDN ones or not.

                                        Masataka Ohta