12 Apr
2001
12 Apr
'01
10:02 a.m.
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 05:16:15PM -0400, Kavi, Prabhu wrote:
Vendors have known how to solve this problem for many years. Failure to do so is a poor implementation and has nothing to do with centralized forwarding being better/worse than distributed forwarding.
It _does_ show that distributed forwarding will be significantly more complex and more difficult to implement. I am not arguing that distributed forwarding is a bad thing; on the contrary, it has a logical and demonstrated performance benefit. However, it comes with a cost in overall system complexity. -- - mdz