So Philip Smith / Geoff Huston's CIDR report becomes worth a good hard look today
Chris Woodfield
rekoil at semihuman.com
Thu Aug 14 00:20:16 UTC 2014
>
> Pruning FIB entries, on the other hand, can be done quite safely as
> long as you're willing to accept the conversion of "null route" to
> "don't care." Some experiments were done on this in the IETF a couple
> years back. Draft-zhang-fibaggregation maybe? Savings of 30% in
> typical backbone nodes looked possible. That's 30% of your TCAM
> reclaimable.
>
Hence the “when programming the TCAM” part of my original statement :)
> For the moment it seems to be cheaper to just build bigger TCAMs.
> Cheaper for the router vendors anyway.
>
I think of it more like “why spend development dollars on a feature that will cause my customers to keep their existing hardware longer and delay upgrades?” Yes, vendors do think like that.
-C
> Regards,
> Bill Herrin
>
>
>
> --
> William Herrin ................ herrin at dirtside.com bill at herrin.us
> Owner, Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/>
> Can I solve your unusual networking challenges?
More information about the NANOG
mailing list