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RFC2961 BUNDLE message

  • From: "Feng, Mark" <m_feng@trillium.com>
  • Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 11:31:58 -0700
  • Cc: "'Arvind, K'" <arvind@tenornetworks.com>, "'mpls@uu.net'" <mpls@UU.NET>

I stand corrected. That makes sense.

Thanks.

- Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ping Pan [mailto:pingpan@juniper.net]
> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 3:11 PM
> To: Feng, Mark
> Cc: 'Arvind, K'; 'mpls@uu.net'
> Subject: Re: RFC2961 BUNDLE message
> 
> 
> Mark,
> 
> I'm not sure that the packet size matters much here. A while 
> ago, I had
> measured processing time vs. packet size on 4.4 BSD. It was almost a
> flat line. Bundling was designed to improve I/O efficiency, 
> not to save
> packet size.
> 
> - Ping
> 
> 
> "Feng, Mark" wrote:
> > 
> > One thing it saves is the IP header, since multiple RSVP 
> message will be
> > packed into one.
> > 
> > If the question is, by the Bundle message itself, helps the 
> scaling problem.
> > IMO, not a whole lot.
> > 
> > - Mark
> >
>