The IP Over NBMA (ION) Archive

[Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>]

Yakov;

I can't see your points.

> > > Minimizing topological mismatch could reduce the need not just for
> > > unicast cut-through, but for multicast cut-through as well.

Your point, here, shoud be not to fully align the topology
but to minimize mismatch to make multicast cut-through
unnecessary.

But, it makes unicast cut-through unnecessary.

That is,

> > And, we don't need NHRP.

> And if you fully align the topologies, there will be quite
> a few other things that wouldn't be needed as well...

Yes.

So?

So what?

What's wrong with it?

While it's not the current reality, what's wrong to make it
the reality of the future?

Or, do you want to continue to develop all the complex but
unnecessary protocols forever, so that we won't lose our job?

But, then, in this world of free competition, the Internet will
be replaced by something simpler, or, in the worst case,
something equaly bad but developped by microsoft or IBM.

						Masataka Ohta