Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 22:23:39 +0200 From: sthaug@nethelp.no To: ticso@mail.cicely.de Cc: oppermann@telehouse.ch, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 303,000 routes in kernel Message-ID: <32301.996956619@verdi.nethelp.no> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 4 Aug 2001 21:55:29 %2B0200" References: <20010804215529.C7176@cicely20.cicely.de>
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> > The router, a Foundry BigIron, is supposed to do gigabit routing at > > wirespeed, even with small packets. But who knows... ;-) > > Most big routers do softwarerouting and implement shortcuts in hardware. > Unfortunately DNS packets have a compareable small short cut hit rate. I'm not sure what you mean by shortcut here. However, as far as I know most "big routers" do *not* use route caches, because it was found quite a while ago that these don't scale. There are plenty of "big routers" that can do line rate with minimum sized packets. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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