Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 27 Nov 1996 21:22:13 -0800 (PST) | From | "James W. Laferriere" <> | Subject | Re: IPv6 and the "average user" |
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On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Phillip Dillinger wrote: > > Processing power should not be a problem. A ten port 100Mbps router, with an > aggregate bandwidth of 1Gbps, needs to route only about 651041 packets/second. > Specialized hardware and a fast backplane could handle this very easily. The > problem with processing power and routers as they are now is that they not > only process the header, but also the payload. This is unneccesary for a > router to do, and a good way to handle that is to have separate backplanes > for the headers and the payloads, and to only process the headers.
Phillip,
Nice idea. Although you still have to re-integrate the Headers with their respective payloads. And at the speeds the Backbone -will- be using it is not an easy endevore. NOT impossible, Just not easy.
Would someone like to layout a dual PCI bus system along the line of the above ?
I'd really like to see what some of you might come up with to re-integrate the headers/payloads, IE: both hardware & soft.
JimL
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