Chapter 15. The Future of Routing
As technologies go, routing is ancient. The need for routing goes back to the dawn of internetworking. Many of a router's component technologies date back more than 20 years! During this time, many substantial innovations and advances have been made in networking, computing, and even transmission technologies. It doesn't take much of an imagination to see that some of these innovations, including IP switches and software-based routing engines, appear to be designed to eliminate the need for a hardware-based router in a LAN. In fact, during the emergence of LAN switching several years ago, some of the proponents of this technology even proclaimed routing to be dead while drumming up support for their new technology. ...
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