Border gateway protocol update packing for a distributed routing information base

    公开(公告)号:US11356369B1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-07

    申请号:US16836436

    申请日:2020-03-31

    Abstract: In general, the disclosure describes techniques for distributing processing of routes among multiple execution threads of a network device. In some examples, a method includes partitioning a routing information base (RIB) into a plurality of RIB partitions, assigning a route processing thread to each RIB partition, processing BGP routing protocol messages at each of the route processing threads, and receiving, at a BGP update thread serving a BGP peer group, from two or more of the route processing threads, route update information for routes to be advertised. The route update information includes a BGP route tuple having a network prefix value and a pointer to an outgoing attribute. The method further includes collecting, based on the BGP route tuples, route update information for routes having the same outgoing attribute and constructing a BGP update message from the collected route update information.

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