On Mon, Apr 02, 2001, Travis Pugh wrote:
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?
Performance of a routing protocol is not a function of just the CPU avaliable. Performance of a routing protocol is a function of the CPU avaliable and the network characteristics. *shakes head* people keep forgetting this. Do you guys also think you can solve the internets problems by adding more bandwidth? Adrian -- Adrian Chadd "The fact you can download a 100 megabyte file <adrian@creative.net.au> from half way around the world should be viewed as an accident and not a right." -- Adrian Chadd and Bill Fumerola