Cisco CEF does pretty much what you describe. It avoids the route table lookup by keeping an adjacency table of recent connections, and switches the packet to the correct port. CEF is one of three route caching technologies on Cisco routers, and is default on modern versions of IOS.
Route table lookups (i.e. process switching) are only done when there is no cache entry, either because it's the first flow or the entry has aged out of the adjacency table.
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I don't pretend to have the answer to how to sell digital media (the $64,000 question,) but I would point out that it probably is unreasonable to expect content producers to continue making profits at the current level.
The TV repairman lost his job to cheap, digital technology, so why not a record producer or book publisher?
We have a cartoon on the door of the IT room that shows some users playing solitaire on their desks with actual decks of cards. The caption reads "Our systems are down, we have to do everything manually."
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Also from TFA: The switch underwent three years of development, configuration and qualification testing before it journeyed into space.
Huh?
Cisco CEF does pretty much what you describe. It avoids the route table lookup by keeping an adjacency table of recent connections, and switches the packet to the correct port. CEF is one of three route caching technologies on Cisco routers, and is default on modern versions of IOS. Route table lookups (i.e. process switching) are only done when there is no cache entry, either because it's the first flow or the entry has aged out of the adjacency table. Cisco CEF
The joke being when working on Windows networks, you'll need a drink.
I don't pretend to have the answer to how to sell digital media (the $64,000 question,) but I would point out that it probably is unreasonable to expect content producers to continue making profits at the current level. The TV repairman lost his job to cheap, digital technology, so why not a record producer or book publisher?
Yes. Seven.
We have a cartoon on the door of the IT room that shows some users playing solitaire on their desks with actual decks of cards. The caption reads "Our systems are down, we have to do everything manually."
Has anyone seen any auctions for henchmen? I'll be needing some of those.
He probably meant that he replaced the entire machine with one running FreeBSD.