On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com> wrote:
(i'd hate to think that everybody would have to buy roberts' (anagran's) Fast Flow Technology at every node of their network to make this work. that doesn't sound "inexpensive" to me.
I suppose he could try to sell it... and people with larger networks could see if keeping state on a few million active flows per device is 'expensive' or 'inexpensive'. Perhaps it's less expensive than it seems as though it would. Oh, will this be in linecard RAM? main-cpu-RAM? calculated on ASIC/port or overall for the whole box/system? How about deconflicting overlapping ip-space (darn that mpls!!!) what about asymmetric flows? I had thought the flow-routing thing was a dead end subject long ago? -Chris