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Re:Cisco says 90% of internet traffic goes through Erlang-co... by jethro_tell on Sunday June 03, 2018 @11:55AM (#17220119)
Ha! yeah that's done in hardware. They are talking about the controller that sets the route tabels for the asics.
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Re:Cisco says 90% of internet traffic goes through Erlang-co... by kazen44 on Sunday June 03, 2018 @02:20PM (#17220875)
forwarding tables to be correct.

Routing tables are in the control plane.

ASIC's really only do "layer 2" forwarding. (this is not an entirely proper abstract, but close enough anyway.

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