[c-nsp] TCAM refresher
Florian Weimer
fw at deneb.enyo.de
Wed Mar 14 16:28:12 EST 2007
* Tony Li:
>> And your ARP table entries. Of course, Cisco could fix that by
>> aggregating entries before they end up in the TCAM: If both
>> 192.0.2.8/30 and 192.0.2.12/30 have the same adjacency, you can do
>> with a route for 192.0.2.8/29 instead. But there are probably reasons
>> for not doing it this way in the first place, so it's unlikely that
>> such a change will arrive in time.
> Such a change is computationally intensive and would frequently cause
> problems with processor overload.
Just out of curiosity, have actually you benchmarked this?
(But I admit, the necessary code changes before you could do this look
pretty significant.)
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