[99416] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Route table growth and hardware limits...talk to the filter
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lincoln Dale)
Fri Sep 21 07:51:16 2007
From: "Lincoln Dale" <ltd@interlink.com.au>
To: "'Jon Lewis'" <jlewis@lewis.org>, "'Bora Akyol'" <bora.akyol@aprius.com>
Cc: "'Matt Liotta'" <mliotta@r337.com>, <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 21:31:44 +1000
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0709201935260.24441@soloth.lewis.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> No, but someone previously posted that with later software versions, when
> TCAM runs out, packets for those routes that fit in TCAM are hardware
> switched, and only traffic for the remaining routes that didn't fit are
> software switched.
that would have been me. and the comments on the logic still stand (as
correct) provided you are running the appropriately non-ancient release of
code.
cheers,
lincoln (ltd@cisco.com)
