[130060] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Routers in Data Centers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ingo Flaschberger)
Mon Sep 27 07:10:25 2010
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:10:03 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ingo Flaschberger <if@xip.at>
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=GTmhYS6d0pYLTFLmLAtBRb1HCPopwAYHqoVdi@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>>> But it seems, that NetFPGA has not enough memory to hold a full view
>>> (current 340k routes).
>>
>> It's just a development platform for prototyping designs, not
>> something you would use in production...
>> I want to use it to implement and test ideas that I have, and play
>> with some different forwarding architectures, not use it as a final
>> product :)
>
> also, does a datacenter router/switch need a full table? isn't that
> the job of the peering/transit routers in your scheme?
In my small network the datacenter router is also the peering/transit
router.