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> Why are you concerned about full 'net BGP tables?  Are you really sending
> data to all ~90,000 advertised routes out there simultaneously?  Or is it
> more likely that you're actively sending many packets to a few hundred?

If you are concerned with high-speed routing/forwarding lookups, and using
the cache optimally, you may not want to use regular BSD routing. See 

 Mikael Degermark, Andrej Brodnik, Svante Carlsson, Stephen Pink
 Small Forwarding Tables for Fast Routing Lookups
 Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM'97 Conference on Applications, Technologies,
 Architectures and Protocols for Computer Communications. (Student Paper Award).
 Cannes, France, September 16-18 1997.

for a way of doing millions of forwarding lookups per second with a 200
Mhz PPpro. Available from http://www.cdt.luth.se/~micke/publications.html.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no


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