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Re: [ppml] too many variables

  • From: Eliot Lear
  • Date: Mon Aug 13 10:55:13 2007
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Leo Bicknell wrote:
Now, once the FIB is computed, can we push it into line cards, is
there enough memory on them, can they do wire rate lookups, etc are
all good questions and all quickly drift into specialized hardware.
There are no easy answers at that step...

I think we're agreeing that it's the FIB management that's going to kill you with all the entropy that Paul keeps alluding to.

Eliot