I really enjoyed that writeup. I wonder has anyone played with DPUs in a similar way? I have been trying to think of how to hairpin traffic through some standalone DPUs like an nvidia bluefield or pensando. To make my own >100G east west stateful firewall for a small fraction of the cost of a real option.
Switch like OPs with all traffic passing to and from a DPU to make a poor man's Aruba CX10000
Switch like OPs with all traffic passing to and from a DPU to make a poor man's Aruba CX10000