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Re: [trill] Forwarding table for TRILL

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Fri, 24 August 2012 20:24 UTC

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Hi, Muhammed,

On 8/23/2012 11:11 PM, Muhammad Mohsin Sardar wrote:
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> Does ingress/egress RBridges need a forwarding table having the size
> equal to number of end nodes(for MAC) + total RBridges(for Nickname)?

As an upper-bound, yes. However, just as this information is collected 
over time, the "working set" of it can be cached, and so an 
implementation may have less capacity in either table and still be useful.

Joe

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