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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.netrail.net!not-for-mail From: nathan@netrail.net (Nathan Stratton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router Date: 3 May 1996 14:08:22 GMT Organization: NetRail, Inc. Your Gateway to the World! (703)524-4800 Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4md40m$3ov@skipper.netrail.net> References: <4lfm8j$kn3@nuscc.nus.sg> <4m0mht$qcl@skipper.netrail.net> <4m1pjc$nle@itchy.serv.net> <DqMLuC.2xo@ritz.mordor.com> <4m39q0$bqu@shellx.best.com> <4m8a1t$7rr@samba.rahul.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: netrail.net X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950515BETA PL0] Rahul Dhesi (dhesi@rahul.net) wrote: : What happens to the throughput when you have a big routing table with, : say, 30,000 entries, and verious-sized prefixes using BGP4? In that : case each packet to be routed requires a search for the right routing : table entry. How much route caching does FreeBSD do? How efficiently : does it search for the longest matching BGP prefix when selecting a : route? We are using P133's are our routers, and do full routing with Sprint and MCI. We also have one at MAE-East and are peering with a 90% of the people there. -- Nathan Stratton CEO, NetRail, Inc. Tracking the future today! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phone (703)524-4800 NetRail, Inc. Fax (703)534-5033 2007 N. 15 St. Suite 5 Email sales@netrail.net Arlington, Va. 22201 WWW http://www.netrail.net/ Access: (703) 524-4802 guest --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34