[e2e] "PMTUD using options" draft

[Cannara]

And why so hard on dinosaurs?  We've been 'successful' (an arguable term) for
well under 1% of the time they were.  :]

Also, hope no one believes routers are "central-processor" based, in recent
history.  Whether custom devices or standard ones, as from Motorola, Intel,
IBM..., router/switch cores are multiprocessor, multi-interface, multi-
memory-path, lookaside CAMmed little buggers.  There's no network processor
worth its salt now that can't handle full-rate Gb/s packet streams per
interface, some at 10Gb/s, with several such interfaces.

Alex

Jon Crowcroft wrote:
> 
> sense of  humour failure detection alert
> 
> btwe my laptop can run incremental dijkstra on
> the internet abo ut    once evey 10 sec and ita an old ibook
> 
> perhaps cisco should invest in apple
> In missive <Pine.GSO.4.50.0402131932490.3386-100000 at argos.ee.surrey.ac.uk>, Lloyd Wood typed:
> 
>  >>On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Jon Crowcroft wrote:
>  >>
>  >>> routers that send anything to a "central" processor are going to
>  >>> have a backplane or switch hotspot/bottleneck problem as well as a
>  >>> cpu problem and are out of the ark designs/dinosaurs for sure....
>  >>
>  >>These days, laptops are multihomed - supporting multiple wired and
>  >>wireless links. But everything goes to a central processor, and
>  >>so laptops are out-of-the-ark dinosaurs as far as routing goes.
>  >>
>  >>I do hope nobody is proposing routing research based around using
>  >>laptops for e.g. adhoc mesh communication. Or peer-to-peer systems
>  >>based on these obviously dinosaur general-purpose computers.
>  >>
>  >>L.
>  >>