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Re: Access to the Internic Blocked

  • From: Curtis Villamizar
  • Date: Wed Sep 04 02:15:37 1996

In message <xoid903xrtg.fsf@chops.icp.net>, Sean Doran writes:
> 
> I'd love to see LSRR (and SSRR) dead because it 
> slows down single-path forwarding considerably,
> and complicates fast-path/slow-path systems in
> gross ways for what I believe is minimal added utility.

There are routers that handle {LS}SRR at near full speed.  Stuffing it
on the broken path in is a bug.  Fast-path/broken-path is just a bug.

Curtis
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