Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2001 06:59:02 +0100 From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 303,000 routes in kernel Message-ID: <E15TGwI-0000bu-00@roam.psg.com> References: <20010804215529.C7176@cicely20.cicely.de> <32301.996956619@verdi.nethelp.no> <20010805002233.A7991@cicely20.cicely.de> <20010804184045.A87444@ussenterprise.ufp.org> <200108050027.f750RkG77073@earth.backplane.com>
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> All of the current designs used in the core, and many of the edge > designs as well keep the "full table" (distilled to the minimum > amount of information to forward a packet) available to the hardware > forwarding engine. This includes Cisco's GSR line, and Junipers > M-series routers. While working differently, Cisco's 7200's and > 3600's also do the "full table thing". to be clear. they keep the *forwarding* table on card/in-cache, not the routing table. the ribs (for ospf, bgp, is-is, etc.) are kept on only the route processor, gated in our analog. randy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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