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Re: [RRG] Tunnel fragmentation/reassembly for RRG map-and-encaps architectures




On Jan 8, 2008, at 4:19 PM, Yakov Rekhter wrote:

Whether the routing convergence will continue to degrade as the
number of prefixes scale depends on the scalability of the control
plane CPU/memory.


Correct. We've shown that the growth in the speed of normal DRAM is slower than the prefix growth rate. Thus, simply the act of writing a list of all prefixes to memory (e.g., at initial convergence time) is taking longer each year.

Tony


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