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David, complicated not necessarily means slow. It's doable and it's done. Regards, Greg > -----Original Message----- > From: David Charlap [SMTP:david.charlap@marconi.com] > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 6:52 PM > To: mpls@UU.NET > Subject: Re: MPLS Performance analysis..... > > Curtis Villamizar wrote: > > > > I was one of those people. Doing the IP destination lookup is no > > longer a limiting factor for modern routers. > > Depends on the speed. If you up the number and type of interfaces so > that your fabric has to forward billions or trillions of packets per > second, you will once again find differences in how the two forwarding > engines (IP destination vs. label) perform. > > Regardless of how fast the chips run, an IP best-match lookup is an > inherently more complicated operation than the integer-matching lookup > required by something that forwards based on label (or VC or DLC). > > -- David |
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