[20280] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sprint's filtering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland M.J. Meyer)
Thu Oct 8 12:27:58 1998
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 09:07:03 -0700
To: Me <smentzer@sni.net>
From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.981008092454.27788M-100000@medusa>
At 09:27 AM 10/8/98 -0600, Me wrote:
>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...
The key word is "was". Since then, Moore's Law has taken us to routers that
can handle the load better.
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