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From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: Baptiste Jonglez <baptiste.jonglez@ens-lyon.fr>
Cc: bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net, babel-users@lists.alioth.debian.org,
	Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr>
Subject: Re: [Bloat] [Babel-users] RTT stability inside a GRE tunnel
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 13:27:20 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1307021321040.10894@uplift.swm.pp.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130702110838.GD24656@ens-lyon.fr>

On Tue, 2 Jul 2013, Baptiste Jonglez wrote:

> Is there a reason for this slow-path routing of ICMP?

They thought they needed to inspect/act on some/all ICMP traffic at the 
time they designed the forwarding ASIC, so they just punted all ICMP to 
CPU.

These platforms have other shortcomings from being designed in the late 
90:ties, but I know people who still have them in production because if 
you don't have too many flows (they have a per-destination based 
forwarding cache), they still work fairly well.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se

      reply	other threads:[~2013-07-02 11:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20130701164607.GB12090@ens-lyon.fr>
2013-07-01 23:58 ` [Bloat] Fwd: " Juliusz Chroboczek
2013-07-02  0:02 ` [Bloat] " Juliusz Chroboczek
2013-07-02  4:48   ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2013-07-02 11:08     ` Baptiste Jonglez
2013-07-02 11:27       ` Mikael Abrahamsson [this message]

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