On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.li...@gmail.com > wrote:
> > > On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Simon Lockhart <si...@slimey.org> wrote: > >> On Fri Dec 02, 2016 at 10:29:56AM -0500, Christopher Morrow wrote: >> >> 2^(8*9216) is quite a lot of different packets to test through the >> forwarding >> path... But, wait, that assumes every bit combination for 9216 byte >> packets, >> but the packet might be shorter than that... So multiply that by >> (9216-64). >> >> > but most/all forwarding asics (aside from perhaps extreme's?) only deal > with the first N bits in the header (128 or so..) so... not quite as many > right? > > > and REALLY they could have just started ~9 yrs ago: "Hey, maybe this 4/6 thing is really a problem? how about we add 2 other things to our testing framework?" instead of: "High Five! First to market!"
