[rrg] Fundamental objections to a host-based scalableroutingsolution

[William Herrin]

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Tony Li <tony.li at tony.li> wrote:
> You're right, you're missing my point.  ;-)
>
> The point is that once you decide to run the network on top of virtual
> circuits, that means that you can no longer do packet switching on the 'bare
> metal'.
>
> In some sense, this is an admission that IP is insufficient.  It needs an
> underlying layer of support before it can be run.  I would much rather see
> IP be self-sufficient.

Tony,

We're generally not switching IP on the bare metal even now. As often
as not we're switching ethernet frames, MPLS packets or sonet frames.
Map-encap changes the adjacency of IP nodes in the network but it
doesn't fundamentally change the switching model. Right?

Regards.
Bill Herrin


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