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

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Łukasz Bromirski wrote:
> On 2010-09-05 01:52, Keegan Holley wrote:
>> I thought this was only optimized for TCAM operations related to packet
>> filtering/manipulation.
>
> No, Turbo ACLs were actually made for software-forwarding platforms -
> primarly 7200, 7500, later 12000 with old engines to speed up the
> processing time by use of more RAM memory for additional lookup tables.


I thought the 7200 was software-forwarded, and the 7500 and 12000 used 
ASICs loaded with the tables to do the forwarding?

Peace...  Sridhar