[129305] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: largest OSPF core
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Martin)
Thu Sep 2 14:51:58 2010
In-Reply-To: <20100902183755.GA7746@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
From: Christian Martin <christian.martin@teliris.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 14:55:00 -0400
To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> In a message written on Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 03:20:05PM +0300, =
lorddoskias wrote:
>> I'm just curious - what is the largest OSPF core (in terms of number=20=
>> of routers) out there?
The stability of the topology plays a most prominent role, but it =
wouldn't surprise me if a OSPF network largely comprised of router LSAs =
(no redistribution), using today's hardware, could easily scale to 1000 =
nodes in an area. Some newer techniques may affect this scale in either =
direction (ie, subsecond hellos and fast convergence would negatively =
impact scale on some platforms, while using demand circuit emulation on =
p2p links would impact scale positively).
YMMV...
C
