[c-nsp] Cisco 7600 BGP route-map processing

[Rodney Dunn]

Software.

Rodney



On 1/22/10 12:41 PM, Walter Keen wrote:
> I was curious if route-map processing in BGP neighbor statements is done
> in software or hardware on the 7600/rsp7203cxl and 7600/sup7203b.
>
> Mostly looking at route-maps to define blocks to advertise, and set
> communities, as well as perform actions based on communities (control
> level of prepending to certain upstream peers(prepend 3x to provider A,
> but 1x to provider C), or the exit point to upstream peers based on the
> set communities(likely by setting next-hop ip for egress traffic)) and
> wondering if this will have a significant impact on the CPU. Total bgp
> routes are probably <50, and bandwidth through any one link is typically
> <100mbit (each router has 3 links)
>