20 Feb
2015
20 Feb
'15
5:17 p.m.
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.
While I don¹t fully understand the context of this particular test and the scaling limitation, there are merchant silicon, NPUs and even CPUs that do support MD5 and SHA at transport line rate requirements. BFD requirements are just a fraction of these capabilities. The option to negotiate capabilities should be available independent of scaling/cost/inefficiencies at present time. It is a matter of implementation/product design choice. Sudeep Khuraijam