[12057] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anyone Deployed Ascend's GRF IP Switch?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Stratton)
Tue Sep 2 13:49:24 1997
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 13:27:00 +0000 (GMT)
From: Nathan Stratton <nathan@netrail.net>
To: Jessica Yu <jyy@ans.net>
cc: Damon Hammis <damonh@netrex.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199709021635.MAA10661@cannes.aa.ans.net>
On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, Jessica Yu wrote:
> >> Just curious, what is the size of the config file on your box?
> >
> >It is not very large 169 lines on rt3.ATL. The size of the the gated file
> >should not slow down the router. On rt2.DCA (or MAE-East router) the
> >config is 458 lines and it takes the same time to load.
>
> Unless you have other data to support, the fact that a box takes
> almost the same amount of time to load a 458 line config as
> a 169 liner does not at all lead to your conclusion above.
> Try to load a config file of size in MGs and see if it increases
> the loading period.
>
> (BTW, in case you wonder, there are providers who have such large
> configuration files running on routers.)
Ah, I would like to see that. The largest gated file we have had was a
little over 2000 lines. There are many things you can do to make the file
smaller. I find it hard to beleave you can have a gated file longer then a
few thousands lines that can not be compressed.
Nathan Stratton President, CTO, NetRail,Inc.
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