NANOG Digest, Vol 90, Issue 1
Roland Dobbins
rdobbins at arbor.net
Wed Jul 8 16:00:46 UTC 2015
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 at arbor.net>
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