RT doesn't scale well. We used it at Rutgers but around the 100K ticket mark it started to tank. So we rewrote it:
Very capable.
This article sucks donkey nuts.
"Ethernet, which drops packets"
Ethernet switches Frames. It does not route packets. That's like saying a railroad track can drop a car because it doesn't like the passengers on it.
"they're trying to change Ethernet because of TCP/IP"
Your question just confuses things more because TCP segments are l4, as opposed to packets (l3) and frames (l2).
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