Re: the confusion about net neutrality

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Arun Mehta <[email protected]> wrote:
> The point I am making, Suresh, is that if you were to spend money on
> speeding up access, instead of trying to prioritize, you would be spending
> money in a way that makes people happy -- the packets you wished to
> prioritize go faster too, of course. If you spend your money instead on
> prioritization, which requires your software to examine each packet, that
> slows everything down -- very likely also the packets you are trying to
> prioritize!

Looking at every packet (and it's source/destination) is trivially
done by most of the routers @ 40gbps speeds today, and can be done
somewhat less trivially on a 2K dollar box running Linux on x86_64. So
looking at 'every packet' is going to slow down argument doesn't hold
much. Of course - it costs some energy (so it's not obviously free)
but not as expensive as one thinks!

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