Certainly in principle it can, though that is not in the current proposal.
The basic idea is to suppress installing routes into the FIB when there is a
virtual aggregate that you can tunnel to instead.
I remember we discussed this in San Jose NANOG, but I forget the details.
Can you remind me?
Adrian Chadd wrote:
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
Software switched routers have little pressure on fib limitions. For a
certain class of application the software switched edge router is in a
much better position to accommodate fib growth than a device with a
fixed sized cam.
I
Paul Francis wrote:
So, if I get you right, you are saying that edge routers have fewer CPU
requirements, and so ISPs can get away with software routers and don't care
about FIB.
ISP's that can get away with software routers Also multihomed edge
networks, the costs associated with
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