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And yet people still say the sky is falling with respect to routing
convergence and FIB size. Probably a better comparison BTW, would be
with a Nintendo or Playstation, as they are MIPS and PowerPC based.
Even the latest route processor for a decent peering box is only a 1.2
GHz PowerPC with 2 GB RAM (RSP720) - so basically an old iBook is
enough for the BGP control plane load these days? I think this has
something to do with the vendors giving you just enough to keep you
going, but not so much that you delay hardware upgrades :-)<br>
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There have been big gains in silicon for the fast switched path, but
the route processors even on high end routers are still pretty low end
in comparison to what's common on the average desktop.<br>
I would say that when control plane/processor power becomes critical, I
would hope to see better processors inside. <br>
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With the IETF saying that speed and forwarding path are the bottlenecks
now, not FIB size, perhaps there just isn't enough load to push Core
Duo processors in your routers. (If Apple can switch, why not Cisco?) <a
href="http://www3.ietf.org/proceedings/07mar/slides/plenaryw-3.pdf">http://www3.ietf.org/proceedings/07mar/slides/plenaryw-3.pdf</a><br>
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John Paul Morrison, CCIE 8191<br>
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A better comparison would be with a Playstation or Nintendo, <br>
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<pre wrap="">In a message written on Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 04:21:37PM +0000, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com">bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com</a> wrote:
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moore's law effects on hardware development
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Some of that is predictable though. I'm sitting here looking at a
heavily peered exchange point router with a rather large FIB. It
has in it a Pentium III 700Mhz processor. Per Wikipedia
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_III">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_III</a>) it appears they were
released in late 1999 to early 2000. This box is solidly two,
perhaps three, and maybe even 4 doublings behind things that are
already available at your local best buy off the shelf.
Heck, this chip is slower than the original Xbox chip, a $400
obsolete game console.
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