* Brian A Seklecki (Mobile) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-22 03:26]:
> On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 00:12 +0100, Tony Sarendal wrote:
> > On 10/21/07, Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'll throw this out there since its been something on my mind for a
> while:
>
> Hardware VLAN tagging, TOE offload, IP/UDP/TCP Checksum offload,
> interface polling are all ways to accelerate packet forwarding. How
> about a standards-based hardware-software API equivalent to Cisco's
> "CEF" or "MLS"?
>
> The basics:
> - layer 3 or layer 4 state ("flow") is identified and established using
> software IP-forwarding.
> - the software dynamically programs the switching hardware backplane
> ASIC to accelerate forwarding the "flow" w/o software further
> inspection (Including Fragment Reassembly, etc.)
>
> There is probably a huge market out there for a commodity standards
> based hardware (if it could be done)
not exactly a new idea. have a diff? :)
it is incredibly hard. we're slowly moving into a direction where this
becomes easier. slowly.
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