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RFC2961 BUNDLE message

  • From: Ping Pan <pingpan@juniper.net>
  • Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 15:10:49 -0700
  • CC: "'Arvind, K'" <arvind@tenornetworks.com>, "'mpls@uu.net'" <mpls@UU.NET>

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
>