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At 05:35 PM 9/16/97 -0700, Taner Halicioglu wrote: > >Well, how about thinking of it this way: Don't you just need to look at >the header of a packet before deciding where to send it? Once you've >parsed the header and determined the routing of the packet, you can start >shoving it out the right pipe. :-) > My humor was too transparent. My frivolous analysis was of a latency problem that is already a second-order problem at today's bandwidths. Cut through takes it down to a third order problem. Thanks for all your comments. This note is entirely serious. --Kent
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