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RE: Fwd: Cisco

  • From: "Alok Dube" <alok.dube@apara.com>
  • Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 18:26:27 +0530 (IST)
  • Cc: <mpls-ops@mplsrc.com>, <rogerw@nordlink.com>
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  • Resent-Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 08:34:32 -0500
  • To: <mourad.berkane@lambdanet.fr>

i agree
but the queston was :-) ====>

>>>cisco documented that its routers are capable of having up to 1
>>>million IP  entries in their forwarding tables. Is this feature
>>>available to all its  products?


so even my nice little zebra box can support so may routes in the routing
table...but forwarding....wouldnt that be the CEf/DCEF ASIC limitation?
> not really but before a new IP entry could be activate in the
> Forwarding Table, this entry must be compute before by the router.
> Depending on the memory capacity of the router, the Forwarding Table
> size will be indirectly limited.
>
> if vendors could confirm?
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Alok Dube [mailto:alok.dube@apara.com]
> Envoyé : jeudi 27 mars 2003 12:29
> À : rogerw@nordlink.com
> Cc : mpls-ops@mplsrc.com
> Objet : Re: Fwd: [MPLS-OPS]: Cisco
>
>
> wud appreciate if someone could clarify...
>
> How does RAM size effect forwarding table capacity?
>
> does FT use RAM?
>
>
>> Be a bit careful of straight statements you may read. Much of any
>> platform  capability is based on the level of RAM, flash or whatever.
>> For example,  perhaps a router can hold 100,000 routes, but it may
>> take 50mb memory to do  so...
>>
>> Roger Williams
>>
>>
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>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>cisco documented that its routers are capable of having up to 1
>>>million IP  entries in their forwarding tables. Is this feature
>>>available to all its  products?
>>>
>>>
>>>
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