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:
I have a feeling this one may start another very large NANOG thread:
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2001/0402routing.html
-Hank