28 Nov
2005
28 Nov
'05
9:19 a.m.
* Kurt Erik Lindqvist:
(deleted address-policy-wg from the cc:)
Done.
So AFAIK the state of the art routers does 40G line-rate deep-packet inspection with any pattern matching. So remind me again what the problem is?
40G line rate with small packets? Sounds neat. (n times 10G line rate with large packets on a signle router has been possible for quite some time now.) Previous router generations couldn't process packets on the fast path as soon as they contained IP options (IPv4) or extension headers (IPv6). Has this really changed? (The whole issue may not be a real problem, it only shows that the claim that IPv6 has been designed for efficient forwarding is crap.)