[c-nsp] C65K: Any significant correlation between import filter route-map complexity and BGP Router process utilization?

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 12:03:55AM -0400, Jeremy Reid wrote:
> I believe that route-maps are (largely?)
> processed in hardware on the 65K platform (S720-3BXL), but

Not at all.

Packet *forwarding* (and possibly "ACL dropping", but still, "things related
to other people's packets") is done by the hardware.  

BGP handling is not packet forwarding - all control plane functions are 
done by the CPU itself.

gert
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