From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 4 23: 4:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from roam.psg.com (host217-33-136-77.ietf.ignite.net [217.33.136.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D959D37B401; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 23:04:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from randy@psg.com) Received: from randy by roam.psg.com with local (Exim 3.30 #1) id 15TGwI-0000bu-00; Sun, 05 Aug 2001 06:59:02 +0100 From: Randy Bush MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Leo Bicknell Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 303,000 routes in kernel References: <20010804215529.C7176@cicely20.cicely.de> <32301.996956619@verdi.nethelp.no> <20010805002233.A7991@cicely20.cicely.de> <20010804184045.A87444@ussenterprise.ufp.org> <200108050027.f750RkG77073@earth.backplane.com> Message-Id: Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2001 06:59:02 +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > All of the current designs used in the core, and many of the edge > designs as well keep the "full table" (distilled to the minimum > amount of information to forward a packet) available to the hardware > forwarding engine. This includes Cisco's GSR line, and Junipers > M-series routers. While working differently, Cisco's 7200's and > 3600's also do the "full table thing". to be clear. they keep the *forwarding* table on card/in-cache, not the routing table. the ribs (for ospf, bgp, is-is, etc.) are kept on only the route processor, gated in our analog. randy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message