"Perry E. Metzger" wrote: > > Michael Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Yes, I have substantial doubts on this. First of all, people already > > > have silicon that does this astonishingly fast. > > > > Define "astonishingly"; > > Ran Atkinson says Extreme's implementation (among other things) > extracts the N-tuple in one clock cycle once the packet is in the > ASIC. I may be mis-stating his claim but you can feel free to ask him > about it -- it isn't like he's a shy guy.
I don't think you'll find it works very well for ESP traffic. That is, please don't forget, why the flow label is a potential solution. Brian -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
