Quagga as border router

[Steve Bertrand]

> I'm not saying you should use polling. I'm saying that not using polling
> makes for more context switches. 64bit registers are twice as large as
> 32bit registers. There will be a bigger penalty on stack/memory usage
> and therefore slower transitions from one context to another (read:
> handling a packet).
> This might be mitigated by having a very large cpu cache.
> 
> It may or may not make much of a difference considering stacks are
> aligned, i was just theorizing.

Ok, I get what you are saying now.

> Just curious: Is there a reason you can't advertise your entire
> allocated block and receive two full feeds?

Well to be honest, there is no reason why I couldn't receive full routes
with the new box.

My current router couldn't handle the full route table, but any new
router will be able to.

Regards,

Steve