[rrg] Fundamental objections to a host-based scalable routing solution

Dino Farinacci dino at cisco.com
Tue Nov 25 13:23:04 PST 2008


> In fact, I would again argue that the host-based approach is more
> powerful:  The hosts have more information available than the routers,
> because the hosts have visibility of the full end-to-end paths,  
> whereas
> the routers do not.

The hosts do not have visibility of the path. They only know the other  
end is sending them packets. And you get this as well from a router- 
based approach.

Dino



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