Customer Requirements for Future Rotuers -- What's Next? Bay Networks
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Bay Networks has spent the last year looking at these requirements.
Segment route computation and packet forwarding on separate processors
Allows forwarding performance to be maintained during route flap
Maintain complete routing table (only best route) on each fowarding slot.
Eliminate route cache
ANS has been used to verify that this works.
BGP functionality
- MED and DPA support
- Route Server (Route Reflector under investigation)
- BGP Communities
- Route Flap Dampening (under development)
- Multipath Support (destination based)
BGP Routing Policies
- Reconfiguration without resetting BGP Peer
- Configuration Support for more than 100,000 prefixes (permits prefix
based route filtering)
Currently, they support 64Mb memory (60-70 thousand prefixes) and will
support 256Mb memory soon.
OSPF Multipath is available.
Multicast
- IGMP and DVMRP is now available now.
- MOSPF is coming in Q1 '97
RED has been implemented in a prototype.
Interfaces
- SONET OC3 -- Summer 97
- ATM OC-12 -- under investigation
Security
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Option to use Kerberos V5 to authentication when accessing router.
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Option to encrypt an entire session on the router.
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Complete packet filtering allows matching on source IP address.
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Provide ability to rate limit (or disable) ICMP message sent
by the router.