String Matching for IPv6 Routers

Authors

ANTOŠ David KOŘENEK Jan

Year of publication 2004
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference SOFSEM 2004
MU Faculty or unit

Institute of Computer Science

Citation
Field Computer hardware and software
Keywords String matching; IPv6; IP routing; CAM; FPGA; Liberouter
Description String matching problem instantiates in IP routing into several operations on packet headers. Routing itself is finding the best matching prefix of a set of strings, packet filtering is a combination of prefix matching, exact, and range checks. With the increase of IPv6 importance (with its 128~bit addresses) those operations get more critical in time. Software implementations may not be powerful enough. Natural way is to move the most demanding operations into a hardware accelerator, just in the sense of hardware/software co-design ideas. String matching must be performed by hardware. Unfortunately, we have to check wider strings than today's Content Addressable Memories can hold; therefore combination of CAM and additional processing may be employed. New task for software support arises here: it has to maintain hardware lookup tables consistent with the software's ideas about routing and packet filtering.

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