[j-nsp] hardware lookup OT

[Hannes Gredler]

thanks jesper,

seems that the results from the US patent office search engine
are just cached [now broken] results ...

try this one ..

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5909440.WKU.&OS=PN/5909440&RS=PN/5909440

/hannes

On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 01:36:26PM +0200, Jesper Skriver wrote:
| On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 12:49:48PM +0200, Hannes Gredler wrote:
| > On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 01:50:39PM -0400, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
| > | On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 07:30:54PM +0200, Piotr Marecki wrote:
| > | > Lightly OT , but i'm very curious . Given that IP2 is able to make 40
| > | > million L3 lookups per second  - so how many memory accesses it is doing
| > | > per lookup and how this alghoritm may looks like ? 
| > | 
| > | I believe the actual L3 lookup done with an mtrie (the same data structure
| > | as CEF) implemented in the IP2. I seem to recall someone saying that the
| > | Juniper implementation was 16-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 vs Cisco's 16-8-8, but they
| > | could have been full of it. If you're looking for something to run on a 
| > | general purpose processor, you should probably stick to the way CEF does 
| > | it.
| > 
| > it is neither a 16-8-8 nor a 16-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 mtrie;
| > 
| > the algorithm is documented in the patent filing:
| > 
| > http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=/netahtml/search-adv.htm&r=15&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&p=1&S1=juniper.ASNM.&OS=AN/juniper&RS=AN/juniper
| 
| "Voltage sequencing circuit for powering-up sensitive electrical components"
| 
| Interesting lookup algorithm ;-)
| 
| /Jesper