Actually no, bgp scanner has nothing to do with platform architecture of packet forwarding of any kind (hardware or otherwise). It is an entirely software mechanism which periodically walks the entire bgp table and does things like verify next-hop reachability. Distributing the operations that it performs so that they happen when a prefix or next-hop changes is a much better way to handle things (improves convergence and reduces the periodic cpu spikes), but you'll probably never see it go away completely. :)
-- I didn't assume the actual process BGP scanner would go away, I was simply wondering why as everything (Moore's law) gets much, much faster, this process still has such a impact on the even highest end RPs. I would assume that the "utilization" impact on the RP would go down as the $$$ of the hardware goes up, but I suppose if it all runs in software and isn't using the features of the more expensive RPs then it will just "be slow forever" ;-) I guess you can liken it to a PC without discrete graphics, you can have the best CPU in the world but if you are rendering polys in software, it's still going to chug. -Drew _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
