On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com
wrote:
On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Simon Lockhart <simon@slimey.org> wrote:
On Fri Dec 02, 2016 at 10:29:56AM -0500, Christopher Morrow wrote:
2^(8*9216) is quite a lot of different packets to test through the forwarding path... But, wait, that assumes every bit combination for 9216 byte packets, but the packet might be shorter than that... So multiply that by (9216-64).
but most/all forwarding asics (aside from perhaps extreme's?) only deal with the first N bits in the header (128 or so..) so... not quite as many right?
and REALLY they could have just started ~9 yrs ago: "Hey, maybe this 4/6 thing is really a problem? how about we add 2 other things to our testing framework?" instead of: "High Five! First to market!"