[98548] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [ppml] too many variables
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eliot Lear)
Mon Aug 13 10:54:53 2007
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:53:51 +0200
From: Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com>
To: Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com>, ppml@arin.net, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20070813142532.GA32490@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Leo Bicknell wrote:
> Now, once the FIB is computed, can we push it into line cards, is
> there enough memory on them, can they do wire rate lookups, etc are
> all good questions and all quickly drift into specialized hardware.
> There are no easy answers at that step...
>
I think we're agreeing that it's the FIB management that's going to kill
you with all the entropy that Paul keeps alluding to.
Eliot
