I don't see TCAM listed either, but as large as HP is I assume they can afford and use TCAM in their larger routers.
On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 1:30 PM, William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Colton Conor <colton.co...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I would suggest looking at the HP routing line, in North America for some > > reason people over look them (HP's ability to get the message out is not > > stellar). The HSR 6602-XG will push 15 Mpps with routing table sizes of > > 4mil (ipv4) and 2mil (ipv6) there is no additional licensing for any > > feature you want to use. With respect to implementation I have always > felt > > if you understand the protocol who gives a damn about the syntax... The > MSR > > 4060 will handle 36 Mpps with table sizes of 1mil (ipv4) and 1mil (ipv6). > > Either solution will be cost effective. > > Hi Colton, > > My bet is that there's no TCAM. That or they're being cagey about > their hardware architecture since I can't find a single document about > the router that even mentions TCAM. Instead I'd bet they're doing > software routing (radix tree) spread over "32 hardware threads" and as > long as the bulk of your destinations are in small enough parts of the > tree to fit cleanly in to the processor caches you'll get "up to 15 > Mpps". > > > http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=c04111430&doctype=quickspecs&doclang=EN_US&searchquery=&cc=us&lc=en > > If I'm right (I'm making guesses after all) then you should compare > HP's offering with software-based routers from other vendors rather > than comparing against routers which have a hardware fast path. > > Regards, > Bill Herrin > > > -- > William Herrin ................ her...@dirtside.com b...@herrin.us > Owner, Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/> >
