[20279] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sprint's filtering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Me)
Thu Oct 8 11:56:49 1998
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 09:27:21 -0600 (MDT)
From: Me <smentzer@sni.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19981008094428.A22315@mcs.net>
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Karl Denninger wrote:
>
> Balderdash. The cost of a few SIMMs in routers pales beyond the market
> damage that comes from not being able to get where your customers want to
> go.
>
> Protecting provider's hardware budgets is not part of a registry's job.
>
I don't think the cost of having enough memory was the issue, it was the
physical ability of the router's cpu to handle updating the routing table
with that many routes...
Sean Mentzer
Qwest Communications
IP Engineering
303-226-6770
