routing and forwarding

以下来自维基百科。在现代路由器架构中。路由表一般不直接作为转发依据。而是用路由表来生成一个更小的转发表。
Routing tables are generally not used directly for packet forwarding in modern router architectures; instead, they are used to generate the information for a smaller forwarding table. This forwarding table contains only the routes which are chosen by the routing algorithm as preferred routes for packet forwarding. It is often in a compressed or pre-compiled format that is optimized for hardware storage and lookup.

This router architecture separates the Control Plane function of the routing table from the Forwarding Plane function of the forwarding table.[3] This separation of control and forwarding provides uninterrupted performance.