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Annoying inscalable proposals

  • From: Jeff Nai <jnai@raleigh.ibm.com>
  • Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 14:18:35 -0600
  • Cc: Jeremy Lawrence <jlawrenc@cisco.com>, egret@nh.ultranet.com, tagswitch@cisco.com, ion@nexen.com, colip-atm@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp
  • Organization: IBM

Masataka Ohta wrote:

> With certain routing protocol such as OSPF, it is possible to know not
> only the next but also the second, the third or even the forth next
> hop router. Thus, by establishing "steps" from the current to the N-th
> next hop router, it is possible to reduce the average number of IP
> header processing by 1/N.
> 

AIRS, IFMP, or TAG seems to be able to accomplish at least the same.  In
case of AIRS, which allows you to "step" though N hops from ingress to
egress, it is sort of a giant step if not a jump.

Jeff Nai