On Wednesday, November 20, 2013 02:32:05 AM Jared Mauch wrote: > Everything you ask a router to do burdens it, including > adding new prefixes, increasing traffic through natural > growth and other things.
I'm happy to burden the data plane, because in basic terms, that could mean that my business is growing (and no, Cisco/Juniper, I'm not inviting you to write NTP processing on line cards, thank you very much - but please do so for BFD and friends). My main concern is burdening the CPU, which, as we all know, is not obviously fast on routers or switches. Newer platforms like the Cisco NCS and evolving routing engines from Juniper feature multi-core x86_64 CPU's that could support virtualization at that layer (meaning they can be reasonably burdened), but by and large, router CPU's are nothing to write home about. Mark.
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