Earlier, Dow Street noted: % That's correct - this would be a new per-packet processing cost, % probably implemented in hardware. I'll leave it to the equipment % designers to comment on the implementation cost / complexity.
This would be a major increase in equipment costs to ISPs, as near as I can tell, because changes to per-packet-processing that require new hardware are not low cost. The burden on smaller access routers, which often still use CPU-based forwarding would also be an issue (software is easier to update, but the increase in number of CPU cycles per packet is an issue for deployed routers). Ran -- to unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe' in a single line as the message text body. archive: <http://psg.com/lists/rrg/> & ftp://psg.com/pub/lists/rrg
