RFC 7409

Forwarding and Control Element Separation (ForCES) Packet Parallelization, November 2014

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Status:
EXPERIMENTAL
Authors:
E. Haleplidis
J. Halpern
Stream:
IETF
Source:
forces (rtg)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7409

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Abstract

Many network devices support parallel packet processing. This document describes how Forwarding and Control Element Separation (ForCES) can model a network device's parallelization datapath using constructs defined by the ForCES model (RFC 5812) and controlled via the ForCES protocol (RFC 5810).


For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.




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