rfc-7409

Forwarding and Control Element Separation (ForCES) Packet Parallelization

E. Haleplidis, J. Halpern

date2014-11 streamIETF areartg wgforces statusEXPERIMENTAL pages27 canonicalhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7409 doi10.17487/RFC7409

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).