> |> |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.
Not the effective bandwidth as seen by applications that are waiting for their hosts to determine a route that works in the absence of reliable, current, and complete information about the network. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
