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Re: Software router state of the art


From: Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:35:56 +0200

* Dorn Hetzel:

Ok, it's probably a stupid question, but given the relative ease of
putting 4gb+ ram on a 64bit platform, could packet per second
performance be improved by brute forcing the route lookup as an array
of 1 byte destination interface indexes for a contiguous swath of
/32's from bottom to top?

8 bits per destination are not enough because you really want to put all
the necessary L2 information into the FIB.  Perhaps even AS numbers, for
flow export.


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