That's right, logic is in programming chips, not their property. You just need to know what to program ;-)
Regards, Jeff > On Jan 19, 2016, at 10:10 PM, Mark Tinka <mark.ti...@seacom.mu> wrote: > > > >> On 20/Jan/16 00:17, Phil Bedard wrote: >> >> Good point, there are many people looking at what I call FIB optimization >> right now. The key is having the programmability on the device to make it >> happen. Juniper/Cisco support it using policies to filter RIB->FIB and I >> believe both also do per-NPU/PFE localized FIBs now. I am not sure if that’s >> something supported on this new Broadcom chipset. Depends on your network >> of course and where you are looking to position the router. > > I don't think the FIB needs to have specific support for selective > programming. > > I think that comes in the code to instruct the control plane what it > should download to the FIB. > > Cisco's and Juniper's support of this is on FIB that has been in > production long before the feature became available. It was just added > to code. > > Mark.
