Actually, my ambiguity was just that. FIB is good. And it gives
you CPU savings and benefits. But it is also a significant
change. The stability of the new branch (while quite good) is
still on the order of a 'new branch'.
-a
Thus spake Dorian R. Kim (dorian@blackrose.org)
on or about Sat, Feb 14, 1998 at 11:07:03PM -0500:
> On Sat, Feb 14, 1998 at 07:05:30PM -0800, Alan Hannan wrote:
> > To solve this, you can consider tweaking the parameters on cache
> > ager (do more less often, fewer spikes, but more significant) or
> > you can move to a non-cached based routing, like CEF/FIB. The
> > former is dangerous, the latter significant.
>
> Yeah, I think Alan meant to say that the latter gives you significant
> CPU savings/benefits.
>
> > (who is writing this after a 8 hour evil airline experience and
> > may not be entirely cogent)
>
> -dorian
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sun Aug 04 2002 - 04:13:15 EDT