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Chapter 13 Configuring the Switching Database Manager on the ML-Series Card

Understanding SDM Regions

SDM partitions multiple application-specific regions and interacts with the individual application control layers to store switching information. The regions share the total available space. SDM consists of the following types of regions:

•Exact-match region—The exact-match region consists of entries for multiple application regions such as IP adjacencies.

•Longest-match region—Each longest-match region consists of multiple buckets or groups of Layer 3 address entries organized in decreasing order by mask length. All entries within a bucket share the same mask value and key size. The buckets can change their size dynamically by borrowing address entries from neighboring buckets. Although the size of the whole application region is fixed, you can reconfigure it.

•Weighted-exact-match region—The weighted-exact-match region consists of exact-match-entries with an assigned weight or priority. For example, with QoS, multiple exact match entries might exist, but some have priority over others. The weight is used to select one entry when multiple entries match.

Table 13-1lists default partitioning for each application region.

Table 13-1	Default Partitioning by Application Region

Application Region		Lookup Type	Key Size	Default Size

IP Adjacency		Exact-match	64 bits	300 (shared)

IP Prefix		Longest-match	64 bits	300 (shared)

QoS Classifiers		Weighted exact-match	64 bits	300 (shared)

IP VRF Prefix		Longest prefix match	64 bits	300 (shared)

IP Multicast		Longest prefix match	64 bits	300 (shared)

MAC Addr		Longest prefix match	64 bits	8192

Access List		Weighted exact match	64 bits	300 (shared)

Configuring SDM

This section describes SDM region size and access control list (ACL) size configuration. The commands described in this section are unique to the switching software. Configuration changes take place immediately on the ML-100T-8 card.

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