Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 00:35:04 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> Cc: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>, Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>, net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fastforwarding? Message-ID: <3B455C18.EB10C5DC@softweyr.com> References: <200107021954.PAA25927@goliath.cnchost.com> <3B41EB64.3B753DDE@softweyr.com> <200107041404.f64E44331564@whizzo.transsys.com>
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"Louis A. Mamakos" wrote:
>
> Most router benchmarks and testing processes these days test forwarding
> capacity in the face of routing table churn, which is closer to the
> real-world experience. Personally, I don't buy forwarding cache-based
> routers because this is a sign that the underlying infrastucture
> isn't fast enough and you're banking on the cache hit rate being high
> enough to save your ass.
Show me a $25,000 router that can route 10,000,000 packets per second
and I'll MAYBE agree with you. Compare that to the average router with
one or maybe two routes outside the organization, and an interior routing
table that is either non-existant or trivial.
This discussion has devolved into yet another idiotic bikeshed. Nobody
claimed anwhere along the line that fastforwarding was a solution to
all routing ills, suitable for use in a core router, or acceptable for
any of the wildly esoteric CRAP espoused in the past 10 or 12 messages
in this thread. If you don't like fastforwarding, don't use it, but
don't get in the way of people who use it and maintain it.
Sheesh.
--
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Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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