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Re: NSPs and filters

  • From: Vadim Antonov
  • Date: Sun Jul 13 17:36:10 1997

Daniel Senie <[email protected]> wrote:

>Would you care to explain just exactly WHY a CAM type architecture could
>not filter packets WHILE BEING RECEIVED from a given type of wire? This
>is NOT an unsolveable problem. Perhaps you've been blinded by the
>current architecture of the equipment you've invested in to date.

I didn't say this problem is not "solveable". I said that the
solution is known, but to my knowledge nobody implemented
or plans to implement it in hardware (and for several good reasons,
too).

--vadim