Re: [RRG] A data point on transit MTU size

[Dino Farinacci <dino@cisco.com>]

> Patently nonsense.  Packet reassembly in hardware is very much
> straightforward if one is willing to burn large buffers to do so.   
> Imagine

The willing part is the impossible part.

> taking an implemention in C and simply converting it to Verilog.   
> Not at all
> out of the question.

It certainly is.

> In fact, a subset of this problem has been solved for a very long  
> time.
> Remember ATM?  Remember a SAR chip?  That's reassembly of fixed size  
> packet
> fragments.

Having fixed size per standard makes it much simpler. Don't have that  
for IP.

Dino


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