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RE: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table sizeconsiderations
From: "George Bonser" <gbonser () seven com>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 19:00:57 -0800
-----Original Message----- From: Chris Woodfield [mailto:rekoil () semihuman com] Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 6:11 PM To: Chris Enger Cc: 'jgoodwin () studio442 com au'; 'nanog () nanog org' Subject: Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table sizeconsiderations I think this is the point where I get a shovel, a bullwhip and head over to the horse graveyard that is CAM optimization... -C
Well, it really isn't so bad. With Brocade FPGA gear you can change how much CAM is allocated to different functions (but you can't do it on the fly, it takes a reboot). I don't think these are available for the CER series, though. The MLX or MXR can be reconfigured. The thing is that the XMR and MLX are not ASIC-based devices, they are FPGA-based which means the hardware can be re-wired with a code change. Personally, I like to be able to reallocate CAM from features I am not using to features that I am using. And to be fair, Brocade has been improving over the past couple of years. Now if only we could route layer 3 on MCT VLANS ... (MCT is sort of like Arista mLAG but it is layer2 only at this point).
Current thread:
- RE: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table size considerations, (continued)
- RE: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table size considerations Chris Enger (Mar 08)
- Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table size considerations Julien Goodwin (Mar 08)
- Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table size considerations Julien Goodwin (Mar 08)
- RE: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table size considerations Chris Enger (Mar 08)
- RE: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table sizeconsiderations George Bonser (Mar 08)
- Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table sizeconsiderations Bret Palsson (Mar 08)
- Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table sizeconsiderations Jack Carrozzo (Mar 08)
- Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table sizeconsiderations Tim Jackson (Mar 08)
- Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table sizeconsiderations Randy Carpenter (Mar 08)
- Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table size considerations Julien Goodwin (Mar 08)
- RE: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table size considerations Chris Enger (Mar 08)
- Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table size considerations Chris Woodfield (Mar 09)
- RE: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table sizeconsiderations George Bonser (Mar 09)
- Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table sizeconsiderations Ulf Zimmermann (Mar 09)
- RE: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table sizeconsiderations George Bonser (Mar 09)
- Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table sizeconsiderations sthaug (Mar 09)
- Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table sizeconsiderations Ulf Zimmermann (Mar 10)
- Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table sizeconsiderations Ulf Zimmermann (Mar 10)
- Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table size considerations Jeff Wheeler (Mar 10)
- RE: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table sizeconsiderations George Bonser (Mar 10)
- Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table sizeconsiderations Richard A Steenbergen (Mar 10)
- Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table sizeconsiderations Justin M. Streiner (Mar 10)
- RE: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table sizeconsiderations Mike Walter (Mar 10)