[21054] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Linux Router KIT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jawaid Bazyar)
Mon Nov 2 15:33:26 1998
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 23:38:39 -0700 (MST)
From: Jawaid Bazyar <bazyar@hypermall.com>
To: list@inet-access.net
cc: Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.981029234806.15295F-100000@tarkin.fdt.net>
On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Jon Lewis wrote:
> Where/how are you doing simulations with that many routes? Feeding full
> routes to a linux 2.0.3x box running gated, I get:
>
> # cat /proc/net/route | wc -l
> 54677
> and that command takes 13s to complete. When dealing with that many
> routes on a *nix box, better tools would be nice. On my 3640, I can do a
> show ip route blah, and get immediate response. On the linux box above, I
> have no such tool. I should fire up a copy of gated 4.x and see how gii
> performs, but its kind of a drag not being allowed to use the newer code
> on anything but personal testing/development systems.
I agree, this is a big gaping hole in functionality. This has to go into
gated because only gated has useful information like what the AS path for
the route is, etc.
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