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MPLS Performance analysis.....

  • From: Grenville Armitage <gja@dnrc.bell-labs.com>
  • Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 16:24:50 -0700
  • CC: mpls@UU.NET
  • Organization: Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies



David Charlap wrote:
	[..]
> Regardless of how fast the chips run, an IP best-match lookup is an
> inherently more complicated operation than the integer-matching lookup
> required by something that forwards based on label (or VC or DLC).

And regardless how much faster your label lookup is, if both
approaches can fill the pipes one is interested in the issue
is moot. Which I thought we'd already concluded.

cheers,
gja