[181944] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NANOG Digest, Vol 90, Issue 1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Thu Jul 9 03:58:56 2015
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From: "Roland Dobbins" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2015 23:00:46 +0700
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On 8 Jul 2015, at 22:26, Roland Dobbins wrote:
> Hardware-based GRE processing is required on both ends for anything
> other than trivial speeds; in general, the day of software-based
> Internet routers is long gone, and any organization still running
> software-based routers on their transit/peering edges at risk.
To clarify, I'm referring to GRE processing on routers; hardware
processing is pretty much a requirement on routers. Other types of
devices can often handle GRE at significantly higher rates than
software-based routers.
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Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net>
