Hi Pekka,

I share some skepticism about buffering of packets, but there are a few
mitigation methods that Noel didn't go into, such as pre-fetching of
EIDs that are known (somehow) to be active, or maintaining a longer
cache for those that are popular.  I would view this as an area of
future research, something that it might be a good idea to more clearly
call out in each of the proposed work items, since that perhaps is a
starting point for the next phase of what is happening here.

Eliot

On 1/22/10 7:57 AM, Pekka Savola wrote:
> Easy to change to buffer instead of discard?  How, exactly?
>
> High-speed routers do not do buffering in similar scenarios even
> though required by specs today (example: buffering packets waiting for
> ARP resolution).  Is there any indication that it would be feasible to
> do later?  How deep such a buffer could be?
>

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