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[Puddinhead Wilson <puddinghead_wilson007@yahoo.co.uk>]

Well, :)

Whatver be my reasons,

Can you help me find them?
I believe Laurel is one such place, any others?


-thanks


 --- "Bell, John" <john.bell@thus.net> wrote: 
> Whats the point of an end host talking a signalling
> protocol, unless it is
> participating in the routing domain? And end hosts,
> by definition are "END"
> devices, which shouldnt participate in routing. They
> dont have other hosts
> sitting behind them, traffic from an end host goes
> one way - to and from a
> router, which decides where to send it. 
> 
> You're talking about the end host BECOMING a router,
> and as I said, what's
> the point in that? It's an END host!
> 
> The only way what you're saying would make sense,
> was if the "end-host"  is
> actually a server functioning as a software router.
> This can be a good
> thing, in a Uni lab, for guys to write their own
> stacks and to see whats
> happening from a Computer Science viewpoint, or for
> research into protocol
> behaviour, but it's a bad idea for commercial
> deployment because software
> routers are crap compared to hardware routers! For
> "crap" read "slow and
> unreliable" :-)
> 
> cheers, 
> 	John
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Puddinhead Wilson
> [mailto:puddinghead_wilson007@yahoo.co.uk]
> Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 08:57
> To: McCallum, Robert; mpls-ops@mplsrc.com
> Subject: RE: [MPLS-OPS]: MPLS aware NICs
> 
> 
> Yes but what if 
> a. the end host can talk a signalling protocol?
> b. the end point identifiers in the end host/which
> would be orthogonal to the forwarding plane, can be
> "as many as you please".
> 
>  --- "McCallum, Robert" <robert.mccallum@thus.net>
> wrote: 
> > Can we keep this one online please.  I would like
> to
> > know what benefits an
> > MPLS aware NIC could give you.  Interesting topic
> > although I doubt it if
> > there are any about.
> > 
> > To me all that it would do is bring the stripping
> of
> > the topmost label one
> > hop closer. Not a big benefit there really.
> > 
> > Robert McCallum 
> > CCIE #8757 R&S
> > 01415663448
> > 07818002241 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Puddinhead Wilson
> > [mailto:puddinghead_wilson007@yahoo.co.uk] 
> > > Sent: 19 August 2004 19:40
> > > To: mpls-ops@mplsrc.com
> > > Subject: [MPLS-OPS]: MPLS aware NICs
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hi Folks,
> > > 
> > > Is some one aware/Is there a place where I can
> > find
> > > MPLS aware NICs?
> > > 
> > > If yes please contact me offline.
> > > 
> > > -PW.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 	
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