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Re: [RRG] Path Hash proposal



Hi.

It might or might not require hardware upgrades but frankly a substitution from a precalculated 256 x 1 byte or 1024 byte x 10 bit table that is what this 'hash' amounts to is not going to break the CPU piggy bank, even on a software device. We aren't (necessarily) talking on the fly HMAC calculations here.

/Elwyn

Randall Atkinson wrote:
Earlier, Dow Street noted:
% That's correct - this would be a new per-packet processing cost,
% probably implemented in hardware.  I'll leave it to the equipment
% designers to comment on the implementation cost / complexity.

This would be a major increase in equipment costs to ISPs,
as near as I can tell, because changes to per-packet-processing
that require new hardware are not low cost.

The burden on smaller access routers, which often still use
CPU-based forwarding would also be an issue (software is
easier to update, but the increase in number of CPU cycles
per packet is an issue for deployed routers).

Ran


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