[106105] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: virtual aggregation in IETF
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E. Seastrom)
Mon Jul 21 09:35:53 2008
To: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:35:48 -0400
In-Reply-To: <48836F74.2020906@bogus.com> (Joel Jaeggli's message of "Sun,
20 Jul 2008 10:01:40 -0700")
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com> writes:
> That said I think you're headed to high end again. It has been
> routinetly posited that fib growth hurts the people on the edge more
> than in the center. I don't buy that for the reason outlined in my
> original response. If my pps requirements are moderate my software
> router can carry a fib of effectively arbitrary size at a lower cost
> than carrying the same fib in cam.
While that's true, planned obsolescence in terms of ram
non-expandability from certain <cough> vendors leaves people on the
edge (who often have to scrape by on thin budgets) hurting badly
enough as to offset any theoretical software-vs-hardware router
advantage they may have originally had.
-r
