Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 17:02:18 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru> Cc: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net radix.c Message-ID: <4087DE7A.16BC14A9@freebsd.org> References: <200404211527.i3LFRabS088245@repoman.freebsd.org> <6.0.1.1.1.20040422005919.03afaaa0@imap.sfu.ca> <20040422002143.GC60368@hub.freebsd.org> <200404220259.45651.max@love2party.net> <20040422051953.GA27025@hub.freebsd.org> <20040422005258.A84320@xorpc.icir.org> <20040422092120.GC27025@hub.freebsd.org> <20040422035424.A4881@xorpc.icir.org> <20040422112025.GA57112@hub.freebsd.org> <4087CCAB.C745ACB3@freebsd.org> <20040422144917.GA27137@regency.nsu.ru>
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Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 03:46:19PM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote: > > Darren Reed wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 03:54:24AM -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > > > > > > BTW thanks for the Cisco datapoint (320bytes per entry). > > > > Though, does it refer to the FIB (the info kept in the kernel for > > > > forwarding purposes) or the RIB (the copy managed by the routing > > > > daemon) ? > > > > > > I don't know enough about Cisco's to say what the output means, > > > but that output (and more) can be found here: > > > http://www.mcvax.org/~jhma/routing/ > > > and off that: > > > http://bgp.potaroo.net/index-bgp.html > > > > The interal data repesentation of the RIB I have designed for the new > > bgpd in OpenBSD uses about 234 bytes per prefix and it will only grow > > a few bytes for each additional path. This is about as efficient as > > Cisco IOS, if not better. Zebra/Quagga takes about 80MBytes for bgpd > > for the same. > > Sounds cool; could you comment a bit on reasons for importing bgpd into > OpenBSD, and do such plans exist for FreeBSD? I don't have a clue why OpenBSD imported it into the base system. I don't think it really belongs there... The code compiles and works fine on FreeBSD. Someone promised me to make a port for the ports collection but so far it has not shown up in my inbox. -- Andre
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