[Babel-users] Ability to work with massive number of routes? (global full-table)

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen toke at toke.dk
Tue Sep 25 14:47:59 BST 2018


Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> writes:

> And - setting a goal for 64k routes - I thought that switching to a
> normalized table structure internally would be useful. Instead of
> storing the nexthop as a full address store an 16 bit index pointing
> to an array of those nexthops. And so on.

Incidentally, it looks like the Linux kernel will start doing this as
well:

https://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=153576423232067&w=2

-Toke



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