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On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 10:56:33 -0700
David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com> wrote:

> An event that causes a slow-down of 500 times or so is not "normal".

For the slow path of IP option processing it is.  When using IP
embedded in appletalk, it is.

It's all slow path stuff.

Why is this so hard to understand?