Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 10:46:42 -0800 From: "Li, Qing" <qing.li@bluecoat.com> To: "Vadim Goncharov" <vadim_nuclight@mail.ru>, "Julian Elischer" <julian@elischer.org>, "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@freebsd.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, Ivo Vachkov <ivo.vachkov@gmail.com>, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, Qing Li <qingli@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: resend: multiple routing table roadmap (format fix) Message-ID: <305C539CA2F86249BF51CDCE8996AFF4096E123E@bcs-mail2.internal.cacheflow.com> In-Reply-To: <opt4i0rlz317d6mn@nuclight.avtf.net> References: <4772F123.5030303@elischer.org> <f85d6aa70712261728h331eadb8p205d350dc7fb7f4c@mail.gmail.com> <477416CC.4090906@elischer.org> <opt4c0imk24fjv08@nuclight.avtf.net> <477D2EF3.2060909@elischer.org><opt4g4kcis17d6mn@nuclight.avtf.net><4780E5E7.2070202@FreeBSD.org> <4781197F.1000105@elischer.org> <opt4i0rlz317d6mn@nuclight.avtf.net>
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>=20 > Surely, routing table should contain a cached pointer to an=20 > entry in L2 table (ARP in case of Ethernet), to not do double=20 > lookups. But still separate those tables... >=20 The routing table contains only the interface route, from this interface route the L2 table is accessed for on net hosts. So it's a one-to-many relationship. How do you propose the L2 entry caching be done ? -- Qing
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