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routers care about tcp (or udp) because of flow hashing. write a new IP proto and see what happens when you try to push >100 gbit
by xxpor 4y ago
routers care about tcp (or udp) because of flow hashing. write a new IP proto and see what happens when you try to push >100 gbit
- blibble 4y agoyou have 3 out of 5 parts of the standard tuple not perfect but not unworkable either
- toast0 4y agoIt can be necessary to get flow hashing on high volume server A : server B communications (especially if you're running aggregated interfaces and are using multiple connections). If you need that in a 3-tuple hashing environment, you're going to need to apply many addresses to one or both servers, which is going to cause problems with arp/ndp cache sizes. Maybe that's ok if you just route a /64 to each server and don't use NDP inside the /64; but you probably need to work on the server OS to work with many addresses well, things get a little shifty there.
- pezezin 4y agoIsn't that why IPv6 includes an explicit flow label in the header?