> > Sure, alright but given what you just said doesn’t it seem odd that there > is still a static BGP tiebreaker in 2024?
No. Also not sure what your point is here. On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 8:55 AM Drew Weaver <[email protected]> wrote: > Sure, alright but given what you just said doesn’t it seem odd that there > is still a static BGP tiebreaker in 2024? > > > > *From:* Tom Beecher <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Thursday, December 5, 2024 12:12 PM > *To:* Jason Bothe <[email protected]> > *Cc:* Drew Weaver <[email protected]>; [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: Route optimization using GPUs? > > > > It's not even that. > > > > GPU's are very good at parallelized vector computations. They are very > very good at THAT, but ONLY that. This is no different conceptually than > router ASICs. They are designed to do ONE thing very well, > > > > BGP bestpath selection is a completely different computational process. > > > > On Thu, Dec 5, 2024 at 12:06 PM Jason Bothe via NANOG <[email protected]> > wrote: > > WIth merchant silicon getting faster and stronger everyday, and capacity > and transit in a freewill, I’m not sure what GPU optimization would buy > you, not to mention the ROI. The Internet routing table is not showing > substantial signs of growth and in some cases has experienced a plateau. > Also, the experience with ‘route optimization tools’ is that while they may > bring you some priority in your traffic, they are also known for making > horrible decisions resulting in widespread outages. > > > > J~ > > > > > > On Dec 5, 2024, at 8:13 AM, Drew Weaver <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > So back in the.. hell I don’t know like… early 2010s there was a push for > ‘route optimization’ from products like RouteScience and the Avaya CNA and > more recently whatever Noction is doing. > > > > The big pain point for this technology at the time was that it could only > optimize the top N egress routes due to how many probes it could send out > and how many results it could process. > > > > It seems like now with a modest GPU in a router you could pretty easily > ‘optimize’ [to the extent that you believe this technology worked] pretty > much the whole routing table. > > > > We used these tools extensively back then and they actually worked pretty > well in most cases. The biggest issue we ran into was people complaining > that we pinged their IP addresses… which now a days seems like a great > worst problem to have. > > > > Anyway is anyone doing any work on implementing GPUs into the BGP decision > making process? Seems like a no brainer. > > > > -Drew > > > >
