[j-nsp] TCAM full on EX8200?

Pavel Lunin plunin at senetsy.ru
Wed Oct 19 03:14:01 EDT 2011


Another example is LB. To make it smooth, LSR must get quite deep bits from
MPLS payload and process NH table accordingly.


In order to do things like facility protection or Option C Inter-AS VPN/VPLS
> (sometimes it's not bad to stick it right to the core, say, in case of a
> merge), LSR must be able to do several lookups in one cycle (yes,
> fixed-length and withing a comparatively small table) and push/pop
> additional labels. Do you think the cheap ASICs can do that?
>
> Don't want to argue against 'label switching is easy', just want to know
> opinions on this :)
>


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