Daniel Senie <dts@proteon.com> wrote:

Would you care to explain just exactly WHY a CAM type architecture could not filter packets WHILE BEING RECEIVED from a given type of wire? This is NOT an unsolveable problem. Perhaps you've been blinded by the current architecture of the equipment you've invested in to date.

I didn't say this problem is not "solveable". I said that the solution is known, but to my knowledge nobody implemented or plans to implement it in hardware (and for several good reasons, too). --vadim