[129320] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: largest OSPF core
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Thu Sep 2 19:37:27 2010
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:35:38 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Christian Martin <christian.martin@teliris.com>
In-Reply-To: <429B484C-D361-4533-B2E5-1261A896E2C5@teliris.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> 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.
i believe the original poster asked about actual operating deployment,
not theory.
and, i suspect one wants to know about full mesh under real load, i.e.
topology change, which can be exciting when one gets to a network of
significant size.
randy
