[c-nsp] TCAM refresher

Chris Woodfield rekoil at semihuman.com
Sat Mar 17 13:41:32 EST 2007


Yes, the TCAM contains all routes (IGP, BGP, connected) plus ARP  
entries.

-C

On Mar 17, 2007, at 2:13 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:

> * Chris Woodfield:
>
>> To answer a question earlier in the thread, a TCAM overflow event
>> causes only the prefixes that don't fix to be process switched. The
>> TCAM is populated in order of longest-prefix-first, which means that
>> in the case of TCAM overflow the shortest prefix matches are the ones
>> that will be software-switched.
>
> Does this include entries for directly-connected hosts?  That could be
> potentially very bad.
>



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