cvs commit: src/sys/net radix.c

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 03:46:19PM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> Darren Reed wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 03:54:24AM -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > >
> > > BTW thanks for the Cisco datapoint (320bytes per entry).
> > > Though, does it refer to the FIB (the info kept in the kernel for
> > > forwarding purposes) or the RIB (the copy managed by the routing
> > > daemon) ?
> > 
> > I don't know enough about Cisco's to say what the output means,
> > but that output (and more) can be found here:
> > http://www.mcvax.org/~jhma/routing/
> > and off that:
> > http://bgp.potaroo.net/index-bgp.html
> 
> The interal data repesentation of the RIB I have designed for the new
> bgpd in OpenBSD uses about 234 bytes per prefix and it will only grow
> a few bytes for each additional path.  This is about as efficient as
> Cisco IOS, if not better.  Zebra/Quagga takes about 80MBytes for bgpd
> for the same.

Sounds cool; could you comment a bit on reasons for importing bgpd into
OpenBSD, and do such plans exist for FreeBSD?

Thanks.

./danfe