On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 02:51:57AM -0700, Barry Greene (bgreene) wrote: > > At the same time, you are not going to find the SP core swapping out > their equipment for hardware with crypto chips. SPs do not seem to want > to pay for this sort of addition. So even new equipment is not getting > hardware crypto that can be used.
As with everything else, it needs to actually add useful features that makes a SP's life easier, not just be another vector for an extra line item and a higher total on the router invoice. > So a BGP IPSEC option has to work with what hardware we've got deployed > today - not wishing the community would "just upgrade." SPs don't see any tangile benefit in BGP IPSEC (and legitimately so), so this will clearly not be a driving factor for them. I guarantee you if you solve a real problem (like say authenticating and managing authorized prefix announcements) and make it faster/better because the router has hardware crypto available, folks will actually start buying new RPs/etc. -- Richard A Steenbergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)