Well aren't you just the genius holding the internet together. Of course the underlying algos are similar, because they are table matching and they are also do

Well aren't you just the genius holding the internet together. Of course the underlying algos are similar, because they are table matching and they are also doing either min or max matching depending on the requirements. They're also sorted for most efficient access. Does that make sorting somehow part of access control? btw, these days, most of the "internet" is expressed either in programmable hardware or in software. Some of those algorithms may be expressed in raw hardware. I work with a guy that makes gzip operate in hardware at 10G speeds, I'm aware of the requirements of networking. I'm also aware of the OSI layers and how they sort of but not quite map to L1-4 of modern networks, which only have those names because of OSI. So don't insult people here because you do some low level network design.