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Date:      Thu, 22 Apr 2004 17:02:18 +0200
From:      Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru>
Cc:        Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net radix.c
Message-ID:  <4087DE7A.16BC14A9@freebsd.org>
References:  <200404211527.i3LFRabS088245@repoman.freebsd.org> <6.0.1.1.1.20040422005919.03afaaa0@imap.sfu.ca> <20040422002143.GC60368@hub.freebsd.org> <200404220259.45651.max@love2party.net> <20040422051953.GA27025@hub.freebsd.org> <20040422005258.A84320@xorpc.icir.org> <20040422092120.GC27025@hub.freebsd.org> <20040422035424.A4881@xorpc.icir.org> <20040422112025.GA57112@hub.freebsd.org> <4087CCAB.C745ACB3@freebsd.org> <20040422144917.GA27137@regency.nsu.ru>

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Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 03:46:19PM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> > Darren Reed wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 03:54:24AM -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > > >
> > > > BTW thanks for the Cisco datapoint (320bytes per entry).
> > > > Though, does it refer to the FIB (the info kept in the kernel for
> > > > forwarding purposes) or the RIB (the copy managed by the routing
> > > > daemon) ?
> > >
> > > I don't know enough about Cisco's to say what the output means,
> > > but that output (and more) can be found here:
> > > http://www.mcvax.org/~jhma/routing/
> > > and off that:
> > > http://bgp.potaroo.net/index-bgp.html
> >
> > The interal data repesentation of the RIB I have designed for the new
> > bgpd in OpenBSD uses about 234 bytes per prefix and it will only grow
> > a few bytes for each additional path.  This is about as efficient as
> > Cisco IOS, if not better.  Zebra/Quagga takes about 80MBytes for bgpd
> > for the same.
> 
> Sounds cool; could you comment a bit on reasons for importing bgpd into
> OpenBSD, and do such plans exist for FreeBSD?

I don't have a clue why OpenBSD imported it into the base system.  I don't
think it really belongs there...  The code compiles and works fine on
FreeBSD.  Someone promised me to make a port for the ports collection but
so far it has not shown up in my inbox.

-- 
Andre



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