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Internet Scale Routing Table Size
In the link below, it is said that there are near one million prefixes for IPv4.
https://bgp.he.net/report/netstats
I want to know that it is a must for ISP routers to cache all these million IPv4 ...
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Route advertisement and FIB programming
Que1. Assuming bgp is running on a network device, will the route advertisement and FIB programming(basically populating entries in hardware) occur in parallel?
Or does it occur sequentially, meaning, ...
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Which sources of information are used to forward packets?
I am trying to better understand how routing works in practice.
Which sources of information (can) go into the forwarding decision that a router makes? I have learned that BGP Updates from ...