Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)

[Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc>]

Disagree that it’s a line in the sand. It’s use the right tool for the job.

If a device is low FIB, it’s that way for a reason. There are plenty of
ways to massage that with policy and software, depending on capabilities ,
but at the end of the day, trying to sort 10 pounds of shit to store in a 5
pound bag is eventually going to end up the same way.

On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 13:18 Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net> wrote:

> There are likely more networks with 10 gigabit or less total external
> capacity than there are with more.
>
> Creating imaginary lines in the sand doesn't really help anyone.
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> *From: *"Mel Beckman" <mel () beckman org>
> *To: *"Mike Hammett" <nanog () ics-il net>
> *Cc: *"NANOG" <nanog () nanog org>
> *Sent: *Tuesday, January 3, 2023 10:57:34 AM
> *Subject: *Re: SDN Internet Router (sir)
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> It’s not a problem, due to cheap, plentiful high-speed memory and rapid
> prefix search silicon in backbone routers. The entire Internet routing
> table consumes at most a few gigabytes when fully structured (and only a
> few hundred Mbytes stored flat).  That’s less memory than your average
> laptop sports.
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> Even in the worst case scenario, where every network decides to announce
> only its most specific prefixes, the BGP backbone would temporarily enter
> an oscillating state that generates a large number of routing updates into
> the inter-domain routing space. In this case, BGP route damping will
> quickly suppress the crazies while  the backbone stabilizes.
>
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> Small routers should not be taking full tables, since there is no point to
> them being in the default free zone. For large routers, neither memory nor
> CPU speed are an issue. High-speed routers operating in the default-free
> zone have a critical path in the forwarding decision for each packet: it
> needs to take less than the inter-packet arrival time for minimum-sized IP
> packets.
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> This is easy to achieve with today’s hardware. A router line card with an
> aggregate line rate across all of its point-to-point interfaces of 10Tbps
> (readily available in today’s gear) can process packets with just a handful
> of cycles in the FIB Ternary Content Addressable Memory (TCAM) using
> ASIC-assisted lookups. TCAM is the most expensive component you’re paying
> for in such a router.  It’s not cheap,  but backbone routers don’t need
> to be cheap. They just need to not be memory-constrained.
>
> -mel via cell
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> On Jan 3, 2023, at 7:47 AM, Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net> wrote:
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> https://github.com/dbarrosop/sir
>
> I came across this over the weekend. Given that the project was abandoned
> six years ago, are there any other efforts with a similar goal (more
> intelligently placing routes into FIBs of low-FIB capacity devices?
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