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Re: Nachi/Welchia Aftermath

  • From: Tom (UnitedLayer)
  • Date: Wed Jan 21 04:59:33 2004 
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Donovan Hill wrote:
> > Extreme i-plattform is currently destination ip based with inital cache
> > lookup. (guess this is flow based)
>
> I guess I just don't understand the architecture. What I really don't
> understand is _why_ you'd bother with flow-based architecture over
> prefix-based architecture..... am I looking green yet?

Cheap + Legacy.
Some gear doesn't want to die :)