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.

-- 
TTFN,
patrick



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