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Re: Route cache performance under stress

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Subject: Re: Route cache performance under stress
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 23:46:24 -0700 (PDT)
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   From: Jamal Hadi <hadi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
   Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 22:13:33 -0400 (EDT)
   
   I dont think the hashes are similar - its the effect into the
   slow path. I was told by someone who tested this on a priicey CISCO
   that they simply die unless capable of a feature called CEF.

I found a description of this thing on Cisco's web site.  Amusingly it
seems to contradict itself, it says that the CEF FIB is fully
populated and has a 1-to-1 correspondance to the routing table yet it
says that the first access to some destination is what creates
CEF entries.

Go figure! :-)

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