[e2e] number of flows per unit time in routers

[grenville armitage]

Bob Braden wrote:
	[..] 
>   *> Of course, everyone wants long termed flows, preferable everlasting
>   *> ones, because these are so nice to deal with :-)
>   *> 
> 
> Au contraire, connectionless networks could not care less about the
> length of a flow.  It's just packets.

It seems there are increasing numbers of places in today's internet where devices
do not immediately deallocate state associated with forwarding a packet once the
packet's passed through. One could argue the internet's not really 'connectionless'
in the purest sense anymore. packets is flushed.

cheers,
gja