Sabrina Kilian a écrit :
> It is an interesting way to use commodity hardware, instead of custom
> stuff. Though, the article does make it hard to take them seriously when
> they use lines like "Modern routers are rarely dumb switches anymore."

Most comemrcial routers HAVE been switches for the last 20 years.  The 
first packet to come through would be routed by the cpu, but the result 
of that routing table look up would be sent to an interface cache and 
all the packets for the same destination after that would be switched 
directly by the interface hardware, leaving the CPU alone.

I think that what they meant by this is that the routers nowadays have 
to do policy routing and load-balancing, that is inspect up to the 
application layer before deciding where to send the packets, rather than 
just based on the destination address.

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