Re: Scalability issues in the Internet routing system

["Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>]

On Oct 18, 2005, at 12:46 PM, Andre Oppermann wrote:

> I'm not talking about BGP here but the actual forwarding on the line
> card or wherever it happens for any particular architecture.  The ASIC
> thingie.  It has to do longest-match lookups for every packet that  
> comes
> in to figure out the egres interface.

Depends on the way the FIB is engineered.

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TTFN,
patrick