Re: [nsp] BGP and Memory Requirements

From: Robert E. Seastrom (rs@seastrom.com)
Date: Tue Sep 05 2000 - 13:06:42 EDT


"Kevin Gannon" <kevin@gannons.net> writes:

> Rob,
> What is a FIB and RIB as a matter of interested ?

Routing Information Base
and
Forwarding Information Base

Someone correct me if I'm geezing here; the RIB includes all the BGP
views, all the OSPF link states, etc... basically all the data
associated with the routing processes, whereas the FIB is the
information that is actually used to make the forwarding decision.

                                        ---rob



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