Re: 400G forwarding - how does it work?

> > > "Pipeline" in the context of networking chips is not a terribly > well-defined term. In some chips, you'll have a pipeline that is built > from very rigid hardware logic blocks -- the first block does exactly one > part of the packet forwarding, then hands the packet (or just the header > an

Re: 400G forwarding - how does it work?

So the most important bits are pipelining and parallelism. And this is substantially simplified, but hopefully it helps. Pipelining basically means that you have a whole bunch of different operations that you need to perform to forward a packet. Lots of these are lookups into things like the

Re: how many bits of entropy do we need for load balancing?

“how much we want to assume about the goodness of the hash generator” and “how much I’m willing to just throw bits at the problem” ... —lj —lj From: Lawrence Wobker Sent: Monday, December 14, 2020 12:33:07 PM To: Pascal Thubert (pthubert) ; NANOG Subject: Re: how