On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 09:11:38PM +0200, Saku Ytti wrote: > Hey, > > > > Isn’t there a requirement that packets with IP options needs to be punted > > to the CPU for processing (process switched) (on every hop) > > Although I'd be interested to know if it's the LC CPU or RE CPU handling > > these then. > > Well not hard requirement, but no one in market needs IP options at > performance, so they're done in software in all platforms that I know > of. This isn't the debate, the debate is if or not they should hit lo0 > filter.
Some platforms, eg: ASR9K process these on the LC. I know this as we had LCs crash from a research team using these options. It only impacted one LC type and only a specific version of software. - Jared -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from ja...@puck.nether.net clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine. _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp