Scalability issues in the Internet routing system
Patrick W. Gilmore
patrick at ianai.net
Tue Oct 18 17:33:03 UTC 2005
On Oct 18, 2005, at 12:46 PM, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> I'm not talking about BGP here but the actual forwarding on the line
> card or wherever it happens for any particular architecture. The ASIC
> thingie. It has to do longest-match lookups for every packet that
> comes
> in to figure out the egres interface.
Depends on the way the FIB is engineered.
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TTFN,
patrick
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