[email protected] wrote on 5/22/2019 3:23 AM:
From: NANOG <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Blake Hudson
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2019 4:35 PM
As I recall reading about one vendor's platform (the ASR9k
perhaps?) and its TCAM organization process, it stored /32 routes in a
dedicated area for faster lookups and did the same for /24 routes.
Yes that was true for the first generation (trident based) line-cards and is no
longer the case anymore.
adam
Thanks Adam! For the life of me I could not remember where I read that
information or what platform it applied to. I do recall it being a very
transparent view into TCAM organization and I appreciated the insight.
It was also a good reminder that it pays to understand your platform as
I had previously (naively) thought that a 1M capacity FIB could hold 1M
entries with any mask size, whether those be 1M /32 entries (a BRAS with
1M PPP/BNG subscribers) or 1M /24 or bigger entries (a BGP edge router).
This was obviously not the case on that platform.
