[106360] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Software router state of the art
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Sun Jul 27 13:11:21 2008
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:10:59 +0100
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Dorn Hetzel <dhetzel@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <2ee691ff0807260441u79c2fef0p76bec3bae85792fd@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, Dorn Hetzel wrote:
> Ok, it's probably a stupid question, but given the relative ease of putting
> 4gb+ ram on a 64bit platform,
> could packet per second performance be improved by brute forcing the route
> lookup as an array of 1 byte destination interface indexes for a contiguous
> swath of /32's from bottom to top?
Much easier if you filter out any longer prefixes than /24 :-)
Tony.
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