Keith Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|> |Neither does it scale to expect all hosts to maintain
|> |enough information to let them do routing.
|>
|> On the contrary, distributed host-based routing is one of the few solutions
|> that does scale well. The availability of resources to deal with the routing
|> grows directly in proportion to the consumers of those resources.
|
|that incorrectly assumes that the only 'resource' in question is cpu time
No. Apart from all the resources provided by the host itself (including
not only cpu time but also temporary and long-term storage) the aggregate
bandwidth of the network grows as well.
Dan Lanciani
ddl@danlan.*com
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