> Or we should stop thinking about processing packets with hardware. Does it still make differences these days? Yes, yes it does. CPUs will never catch purpose

> Or we should stop thinking about processing packets with hardware. Does it still make differences these days? Yes, yes it does. CPUs will never catch purpose built chips for networking. Networking chips are getting more programmable, though. The most known effort is P4 (https://p4.org https://p4.org). Even for vendors that don't support P4, they are still internally making their hardware more fungible, which is good. > The reason that we are so slow to adopt IPv6, same reason. IPv6 has been slow to adopt because it solves a problem most people have not had, in an overly complicated way.