[12022] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: perf #s for GRF vs 7500 Re: Anyone Deployed Ascend's GRF IP S witch?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Wed Aug 27 11:49:04 1997
To: paulp@winterlan.com (Paul Peterson)
cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Tony Li <tli@juniper.net>
Date: 27 Aug 1997 08:38:57 -0700
In-Reply-To: paulp@winterlan.com's message of 27 Aug 97 08:40:42 GMT
paulp@winterlan.com (Paul Peterson) writes:
> Bay claims to hold the entire Internet routing table in just 4-6MB RAM
> per BGP peer (I assume this is after convergence). They say that the
> method in which they do this is proprietary. I am just wondering if it
> is possible.....
That's certainly possible. However, it would be interesting to see how it
scales with the number of peers. You could quickly find yourself needing
>64MB if it's even just linear.
Tony
