[215] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: routing meltdown
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Yakov Rekhter)
Fri Aug 11 11:58:29 1995
To: jon@branch.com (Jon Zeeff)
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 11 Aug 95 11:04:30 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 11 Aug 95 08:48:06 PDT
From: Yakov Rekhter <yakov@cisco.com>
Jon,
> I absolutely agree that the time has come to remove complex routing
> protocols from routers and use workstations.
Two points:
1. I am not sure whether BGP could be classified as a "complex routing
protocol".
2. The proposed scheme does not remove BGP from the routers. In fact, BGP is
used to communicate forwarding information between the routers and the route
servers.
So, if we're to assume that BGP is "a complex routing protocol", then using
router servers does not allow "to remove complex routing protocols from
routers". And if we're to assume that BGP is not a complex routing protocol,
then we don't have a problem of removing "complex routing protocols from
routers".
So, it seems that using route servers would have no impact wrt to removing
"complex routing protocols from routers".
Yakov.
