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Re: Regarding pre-round trip for stateless cookie (Jan's issue)



In message <200209190151.g8J1pt802901@sydney.East.Sun.COM>, Radia Perlman - Bos
ton Center for Networking writes:
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>As for shorter setup times...ironically, the 4/6 protocol might have
>lower latency!
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Maybe, though that would depend on both CPU time and round-trip time -- 
and CPUs are getting faster, unlike the speed of light.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
		http://www.wilyhacker.com ("Firewalls" book)