Interesting BFD discussion on reddit

Saku Ytti saku at ytti.fi
Tue Feb 17 07:43:24 UTC 2015


On (2015-02-17 06:11 +0530), Glen Kent wrote:

> I think the hardware used was Broadcom. They have a few chipsets which do
> MD5 and (possibly) SHA in hardware for BFD -- which i have been told is
> pretty much useless when you start scaling.

Thanks. I'd be more interested to see performance for Trio, EZChip and perhaps
even pq3/qoriq SEC2/SEC3. Real platforms, deployed in volume today. but I
guess this data, at least for Trio would be very difficult to acquire.
However pq3/qoriq would, in my mind, be software implementation, as it's
control-plane CPU, which means BFD would have to be punted as well.

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