Re: Protocol Performance

--On 25 June 2002 16:34 -0700 Gamze Seckin <gamze(_at_)hmus(_dot_)net> wrote:

> 2. Is it safe to say that a L7 switch (web switch, e.g. nortel
> alteon) is a simplified OPES device (since ICAP is not an requirement)?
> If not, why?
No.

The L7 switch isn't a known entity in the communication path between the 
parties engaged in the request-response chain and as such can't be 
controlled by either of the parties.