> But we have to engineer this in some fashion that
>permits efficient use of these addresses by hosts and (especially) routers.
>(An earlier poster wrote that you "just have to write the code". That's
the
>wrong idea -- big iron routers don't use "code" to do forwarding, they use
>silicon, and very fast silicon at that. There are routers in production
use
>today that are handling OC-192 -- 10 Gbps -- links. You can't do that in
>software.)
> --Steve Bellovin
Software, firmware, its a matter of semantics. Do you think that silicon
magically performs routing and logical functions. Hmmm...
-Michael B. Bellopede
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