Reshad,

> On Apr 25, 2023, at 1:53 PM, Reshad Rahman <[email protected]> wrote:
> <RR> Not just the name, but the description. In this case the description 
> says "running in hardware".  Sometimes that line is blurry, e.g. is VPP 
> considered hardware? Should the description instead say something along the 
> times of "running in forwarding plane".
> 
> [...]

> <RR> The BFD implementation I worked on many years ago was distributed to 
> linecards for SH (for scale) but was not "offloaded", in that there was no 
> h/w assist.

A good distinction.  Juniper has implementations that run on the "linecard CPU" 
and some that are built into the ASIC.

I don't know whether it's worth distinguishing the variants in the model.  For 
both of these cases, Juniper calls it "distributed".  However, "running on the 
linecards/forwarding plane" is a reasonable approximation.

-- Jeff


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