From: Travis Pugh (no email)
Date: Mon Apr 02 2001 - 07:55:34 EDT
Not to oversimplify, but assuming we can continue to separate forwarding
from the routing process itself, is this really a situation that calls for
a complete redesign of BGP? If you look at the routing processors on
Cisco and Juniper hardware, Cisco's GSR is using a 200Mhz MIPS RISC
processor and Juniper is using a 333Mhz Mobile Pentium II.
With RISC reaching 1Ghz and Intel pushing 2Ghz, it appears that the actual
processors in use by the 2 big vendors are a couple of years behind. What
happens to the boxes ability to process a 500,000 route table if you
quadruple it's memory and give it 5 times more processing power?
Also, it would likely require a re-write of software, but what's keeping
us from using SMP in routers?
Cheers.
-travis
On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
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> I have a feeling this one may start another very large NANOG thread:
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> http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2001/0402routing.html
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> -Hank
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