Flow Scalability per Broadcom Chipset



The  maximum entries of OpenFlow Flows is often a critical piece of any SDN solution. This is a summary of Openflow Flow scalability per family of Chipset. 

ChipsetICAP (maximum entries in default or match modes)ECAP
(entries)
VCAP
(entries)
L2 (maximum entries when buffer-mode is 5)L3 (maximum entries when buffer-mode 5)
defaultIPv4IPv6MACARPIPv4 host routeIPv4 forwarding  routeIPv6 host routeIPv6 forwarding  route
Helix42048409620484096204851210243276816384600081923000
Trident22048409620484096409651251232768120001200060006000
Trident2+8192163848192163841638451251232768120001200060006000
Trident3-X33072307230723072307251210241638412000400060002000
Trident3-X530723072307230723072102451232768120001200060006000
Trident3-X730723072307230723072102451232768120001200060006000
Tomahawk/Tomahawk+10243072102430723072512512819265001200032506000
Tomahawk210243072102430723072512512819265001200032506000
Maverick409681924096819281925125123276840001200020006000
Tomahawk3
102430721024307230722562568192
16384
384081921920




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