Hello Gregory ,please find my responses in line On Tue 25 Sep 2018, 15:54 Gregory Edigarov, <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > the whole discussion here reminds me somewhat about my idea I wanted to > realize some time ago: > suppose we have an imaginary "fast" router, which does hardware > assisted forwarding, and an OpenBGP(on a different host) lets call it > RDE, where it will provide routes for this fast router, to be put into > forwarding engine. > then we would have the following advantages: > 1. nice way to configure whatever we need in BGP (because we all know > that bgpd.conf is a very nice thing) > Openbgpd in nice for a control plane 2. real packet forwarding will take place on the hardware, specifically > built for this purpose. > Standard l3 switches can do this as long as they have 1. Sufficient cam /asic memory to accomodate the routes you intend to load into switch forwarding plane 2. The switch os needs to support bgp and have sufficent memory + cpu to allow some route filtering between rib and fib on the switch 3. Probably ospf also would be neededon the switch 3. if somebody would manufacture such say "dumb" forwarding planes, they > would definitely cost less then a fully featured router. > Yeah i think a decent l3 switch (broadcom trident ii ) or better would do what you are asking for > > is this a feasible idea or am I thinking completely wrong I dont think u need a special manufacturer for what im proposing .
