Re: Traffic per Prefix Length

["Paul G. Donner" <pdonner () cisco com>]

There are many interesting pieces of data and there is plenty of data
in the Internet to collect. ;-)

might show how much work routers have to do in particular areas of the
table (which, granted, varies from location to location) when doing
longest-prefix match.  what areas of the table are hit more than others.

 "sh ip cef traffic prefix"




At 01:55 AM 5/4/2001 +0200, Arnold Nipper wrote:

> On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 07:09:24PM -0600, Paul G. Donner wrote:
> >
> > does anyone collect stats that would facilitate the derivation of
> > the number of packets forwarded per prefix length (per unit time)
> > in the routing table or per prefix length range?  percentages would
> > work too.
> >
>
> Interesting ... Do you think that this will give you any useful information?
> I would be more interested in how far packets go. Not in networks terms but
> in real distance. Next would be to go further up the stack and see if there
> is a difference in protocols (i.e www compared to dns).
>
> -- Arnold