Editing Routing table (section)

==Forwarding table==
Routing tables are generally not used directly for [[packet forwarding]] in modern router architectures; instead, they are used to generate the information for a simpler [[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 [[Program optimization|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.<ref>[http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3746.txt Forwarding and Control Element Separation (ForCES) Framework], L. Yang ''et al.'', RFC3746, April 2004.</ref> This separation of control and forwarding provides uninterrupted high-performance forwarding.