uPRF strict more

Mark Tinka mark at tinka.africa
Thu Sep 30 05:00:55 UTC 2021



On 9/29/21 23:36, Anoop Ghanwani wrote:

> This is not true for all ASICs.  Some ASICs choose to incur the 
> penalty in a different way, e.g., by halving the prefix tables.  The 
> prefix table is then duplicated so that uRPF SA and forwarding DA 
> lookups can happen in parallel.  What kind of penalty is incurred is a 
> question worth asking the equipment vendor.

Agree with this - the implementation can vary between vendors and 
between hardware.

Best to test your specific platform, to be sure.

Mark.


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