Reimagining the future of routers

Re:Reimagining the future of routers by wmf on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @11:35AM (#11862928)

The issue is that Tomahawk has far less than 610K entries of TCAM and a dozen different teams are exploring various types of RIB caching to accommodate that.

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Re:Reimagining the future of routers by scurvy on Thursday June 09, 2016 @12:17AM (#11867508)

Tomahawk is old and busted. Jericho is the new hotness.

Full tables in FIB.

https://www.broadcom.com/press/release.php?id=s902223

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Re:Reimagining the future of routers by wmf on Thursday June 09, 2016 @02:40PM (#11871409)

Shh! You're ruining it.

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Re:Reimagining the future of routers by bogomipz on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @10:47PM (#11867249)

Sorry, what is Tomahawk?

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Re:Reimagining the future of routers by hannesgredler on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @11:58PM (#11867453)

Its a 3TBits/s chipset from Broadcom https://www.broadcom.com/products/ethernet-communication-and...

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Re:Reimagining the future of routers by bogomipz on Thursday June 09, 2016 @08:21AM (#11868875)

Thanks for the link, but how does this relate to my comment asking comment asking why you can't build your own router with commodity hardware? Isn't the Tommahawk and Jericho intended for ODMs who are building traditional switches?

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Re:Reimagining the future of routers by wmf on Thursday June 09, 2016 @02:39PM (#11871407)

It's pointless to use anything other than these ASICs because their price/performance is so far ahead. Software routing is especially pointless.

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