On Sep 5, 2014, at 12:21 PM, Sander Steffann <san...@steffann.nl> wrote:
> Hi, > >> How many Youtube subject tags will fit in *your* routers' TCAM? >> >> http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/09/04/2156232/ucla-cisco-more-launch-consortium-to-replace-tcpip >> >> [ Can someone convince me this isn't the biggest troll in the history >> of the internet? Cause it sounds like shoehorning DNS /and Google/ into >> IP in place of, y'know, IP addresses. ] > > Well, you don't need addresses for clients, just for content... From the > architecture page at http://named-data.net/project/archoverview/: > > "Note that neither Interest nor Data packets carry any host or interface > addresses (such as IP addresses); Interest packets are routed towards data > producers based on the names carried in the Interest packets, and Data > packets are returned based on the state information set up by the Interests > at each router hop." > > So it's basically suggesting a NAT-like table in every single router. And we > all know how well NAT boxes scale... > We were writing in parallel. :) -Murat > Cheers, > Sander ======================================== Murat Yuksel Associate Professor Graduate Director Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Nevada - Reno 1664 N. Virginia Street, MS 171, Reno, NV 89557. Phone: +1 (775) 327 2246, Fax: +1 (775) 784 1877 E-mail: yuk...@cse.unr.edu Web: http://www.cse.unr.edu/~yuksem ========================================
