Tag :: match rules

As of DMF-8.9.0, when several IP addresses are used in a single policy (whether via an address group or individually across match rules with otherwise identical conditions), the controller groups the addresses together and programs them as a field set on supported switches. This field set has a label that can be directly referenced by TCAM, which allows that TCAM entry to match against packets with any of the IP prefixes in that field set. This optimization dramatically reduces the TCAM consumption for policies that reference many addresses, allowing significantly more policies or addresses to be programmed without exceeding switch TCAM capacity limits. For example, on a switch incapable of performing this optimization, a policy matching traffic from a 100-entry source address group to a 100-entry destination address group would require 100x100=10,000 individual entries. With this optimization, the controller programs two field sets and a single match rule that references both field sets, reducing TCAM consumption from 10,000 entries to just 1 entry for that policy.