[ppml] too many variables

Eliot Lear lear at cisco.com
Mon Aug 13 14:53:51 UTC 2007


Leo Bicknell wrote:
> Now, once the FIB is computed, can we push it into line cards, is
> there enough memory on them, can they do wire rate lookups, etc are
> all good questions and all quickly drift into specialized hardware.
> There are no easy answers at that step...
>   

I think we're agreeing that it's the FIB management that's going to kill 
you with all the entropy that Paul keeps alluding to.

Eliot



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