Re: [irs-discuss] IRS Problem Statement Posted

[Jamal Hadi Salim <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Robert Raszuk <[e-mail]> wrote:

>
> I can do longest prefix match today using OF priority in each table.
>
> Sure maybe it is not optimal as compared with nice tree lookup alternatives
> we see today with pure IP destination based lookup and of course there is
> room for improvement. But let's work based on the correct assumptions.

At the expense of steering this discussion into a further tangent (and
not offend any work youve done in this space - it is a novel idea;
i have done similar things with broadcom chips myself many seasons back):
The problem with using ACL tables on the switches is their size.
They range anywhere from 128 entries to a few K. Sure, you can perform
acrobatics with re-populating them doing BGP or a medium size network
but why not use the IP functional blocks which exists _on the same chip_
with much better organized tables for ip forwarding etc?

cheers,
jamal