Re: Scalability issues in the Internet routing system

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. -- TTFN, patrick