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Re: [sig-policy]Proposal prop-014-v001.txt - Lowering minimum allocation size and criteria



>> Routing tables are stored in memory on the linecards
> maybe they are on some router models.  on most i know, only
> forwarding tables are on line cards and routing tables are
> more centralized (but still possibly somewhat distributed
> on very large and/or redundant systems).

it may be worth noting the work of greenberg et al., which
showed that, for one vendor with whom you may be familiar,
updating the fibs when a rib changed (due to ospf link change),
took the majority of the time, i.e., more than spf calculation.

randy