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Re: What is necessity for SRH, and other EH, insertion/removal?

Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> Mon, 09 December 2019 19:16 UTC

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Subject: Re: What is necessity for SRH, and other EH, insertion/removal?
To: Ron Bonica <rbonica=40juniper.net@dmarc.ietf.org>
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Ron Bonica wrote on 09/12/2019 19:00:
> Good point. Worse than slow. Low bandwidth.

The term "slow path" gives the misleading impression that it's a viable 
way of pushing packets through a router.  Maybe we should rename this 
the "hilarity path", to give a more realistic impression of how it 
performs in real life?

Nick

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