[2013] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Routing table jump
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Stratton)
Wed Mar 13 09:45:44 1996
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 09:00:42 -0500 (EST)
From: Nathan Stratton <nathan@netrail.net>
To: mike <mn@tremere.ios.com>
cc: "Rebecca L. Nitzan" <nitzan@es.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9603122125.A6174-0100000@tremere.ios.com>
On Tue, 12 Mar 1996, mike wrote:
> BGP table version is 5943064, main routing table version 5943064
> 35739 network entries (60290/102278 paths) using 7298508 bytes of memory
> 5910 BGP path attribute entries using 680968 bytes of memory
> 3496 BGP route-map cache entries using 55936 bytes of memory
> 51 BGP filter-list cache entries using 816 bytes of memory
> Dampening enabled. 209 history paths, 93 dampened paths
>
> Well, I assume it will go to double until August to about 70000. that's
> why I am taking and promotin ga different strategy.
> The growth is clearly exponential. It took a small dip because of the
> end of the year festivities worldwide (pretty much every country has some
> stuff in holidays around end of december until end of Ramadan). Now we
> are back on track, my private curve fits again.
>
> This means to all who use routers to do transport *and* routing
> calculations/table management on memory bound devices: you're out of
> business on 10/1/1996. This is when 'the Internet' crashes. In reality,
> it is when all lemmings jump the final cliff, and only the 'bad' ones
> will prevail.
Mike, what if our routers hold 128 megs of ram?
Nathan Stratton CEO, NetRail, Inc. Your Gateway to the World!
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