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Re: Dependency on mapping [Re: [RRG] Tunnel fragmentation/reassembly for RRG ...


On Jan 18, 2008, at 5:18 AM, HeinerHummel@aol.com wrote:

 get the point of how NIRA would  reduce the routing tables, but 
how NIRA can speed up IP forwarding on routers' line cards by a factor of 20?

due to just one matrix element look up instead of 20 compares


Ok, it reduces the cost of a lookup, but that doesn't imply that you can forward 20x faster.  There's still a ton of other overhead.  

Tony