Thus spake "Giuliano Cardozo Medalha" <giuliano@usp.br>
> Yesterday nigth a very good system analyst give me a lot of explanation
> about it.
>
> I dault that on Comer, or Tanembaum or IBM TCP/IP Red Book could
> give me some explanation about that
I was thinking more along the lines of:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1578700418/
True, it doesn't quite go into how the CPU/ASIC matches a packet against the
RIB/FIB, but that's a product-specific thing that is generally irrelevant.
> Nobody knows how the algorithm implemented by CISCO or Extreme
> or Juniper works !!!
I very much doubt that.
[ another email ]
> I posted a question about ip routing (hoe the router do the match)
>
> Various answers have came up
>
> I woul like to know what is CEF, FIB and routing cache and how its
> implemented ?
>
> Any documents about ip routing (ip match on router table) and CEF,
> FIB and router cache could help me.
This book has excellent explanations of how various Cisco products implement
all of the above:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1578701813/
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