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Re: Sprint's filtering

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Denninger)
Thu Oct 8 13:12:17 1998

Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 11:53:40 -0500
From: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net>
To: Me <smentzer@sni.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.981008092454.27788M-100000@medusa>; from Me on Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 09:27:21AM -0600

On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 09:27:21AM -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...
> 
> Sean Mentzer
> Qwest Communications
> IP Engineering
> 303-226-6770

Aggressively dampening flaps solves that problem.  Entropy is controllable;
the issue was presented as being one of table space (much as it was when the
AGS+ ran out of space until the 7000/SSP was introduced)

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