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Re: Interesting BFD discussion on reddit
From: Sudeep Khuraijam <skhuraijam () liveops com>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 14:17:25 -0800
On (2015-02-17 06:11 +0530), Glen Kent wrote:I think the hardware used was Broadcom. They have a few chipsets which do MD5 and (possibly) SHA in hardware for BFD -- which i have been told is pretty much useless when you start scaling.
While I donĀ¹t fully understand the context of this particular test and the scaling limitation, there are merchant silicon, NPUs and even CPUs that do support MD5 and SHA at transport line rate requirements. BFD requirements are just a fraction of these capabilities. The option to negotiate capabilities should be available independent of scaling/cost/inefficiencies at present time. It is a matter of implementation/product design choice. Sudeep Khuraijam
Current thread:
- Interesting BFD discussion on reddit Dave Waters (Feb 15)
- Re: Interesting BFD discussion on reddit Saku Ytti (Feb 15)
- Re: Interesting BFD discussion on reddit Glen Kent (Feb 15)
- Re: Interesting BFD discussion on reddit Saku Ytti (Feb 16)
- Re: Interesting BFD discussion on reddit Eygene Ryabinkin (Feb 16)
- Re: Interesting BFD discussion on reddit Glen Kent (Feb 16)
- Re: Interesting BFD discussion on reddit Saku Ytti (Feb 16)
- Re: Interesting BFD discussion on reddit Sudeep Khuraijam (Feb 20)
- Re: Interesting BFD discussion on reddit Glen Kent (Feb 15)
- Re: Interesting BFD discussion on reddit Saku Ytti (Feb 15)
- Re: Interesting BFD discussion on reddit Saku Ytti (Feb 16)
- Re: Interesting BFD discussion on reddit Dave Waters (Feb 17)
- Re: Interesting BFD discussion on reddit Rob Seastrom (Feb 16)
- Re: Interesting BFD discussion on reddit Hugo Slabbert (Feb 17)