Re: NANOG Digest, Vol 90, Issue 1

["Roland Dobbins" <rdobbins () arbor net>]

On 8 Jul 2015, at 22:26, Roland Dobbins wrote:

> Hardware-based GRE processing is required on both ends for anything 
> other than trivial speeds; in general, the day of software-based 
> Internet  routers is long gone, and any organization still running 
> software-based routers on their transit/peering edges at risk.

To clarify, I'm referring to GRE processing on routers; hardware 
processing is pretty much a requirement on routers.  Other types of 
devices can often handle GRE at significantly higher rates than 
software-based routers.


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Roland Dobbins <rdobbins () arbor net>