[85876] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Scalability issues in the Internet routing system
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Tue Oct 18 13:34:19 2005
In-Reply-To: <435526F0.8000705@nrg4u.com>
Cc: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 13:33:03 -0400
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Oct 18, 2005, at 12:46 PM, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> I'm not talking about BGP here but the actual forwarding on the line
> card or wherever it happens for any particular architecture. The ASIC
> thingie. It has to do longest-match lookups for every packet that
> comes
> in to figure out the egres interface.
Depends on the way the FIB is engineered.
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TTFN,
patrick
