[129304] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: largest OSPF core
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Ryu)
Thu Sep 2 14:42:43 2010
In-Reply-To: <20100902183755.GA7746@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 13:42:34 -0500
From: Alex Ryu <r.hyunseog@ieee.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I think it is really depending on how your network topology looks like.
If you have top-down design with star topology to limit the network
connections to individual routers, it may scale well.
But if you connect every routers to each other such as full-mesh, it
will be a problem during interface flapping or something like that.
Alex
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> wrote:
> In a message written on Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 03:20:05PM +0300, lorddoskia=
s wrote:
>> =A0I'm just curious - what is the largest OSPF core (in terms of number
>> of routers) out there?
>
> I'll admit to having seen a network with over 400 devices in an
> OSPF area 0, didn't design it, and in the end didn't get to work
> on it.
>
> Far as I know worked just fine though, no issues reported. =A0How
> well your IGP scales depends a lot more on what you put in it, and
> how dynamic your network situation is than the protocol or number
> of devices.
>
> --
> =A0 =A0 =A0 Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/
>
