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Re: [v6ops] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-wkumari-long-headers-01.txt

Gert Doering <gert@space.net> Thu, 04 July 2013 09:46 UTC

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Hi,

On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 05:54:00PM -0700, Bill Jouris wrote:
> Or are you (or the authors) suggesting that there are technical 
> problems with making a device which could handle longer headers in hardware?

Just the small technicality that someone has to actually pay for that,
and the cost of walking a header chain that could be up to 65k long at
100Gbit/s is higher than "if it's not in the first 128 byte, drop the 
packet and/or ignore what comes after it".

Gert Doering
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