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Re: routing meltdown

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Zeeff)
Fri Aug 11 17:14:09 1995

From: jon@branch.com (Jon Zeeff)
To: yakov@cisco.com (Yakov Rekhter)
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 17:04:38 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nmw@news.ios.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199508111952.MAA01926@hubbub.cisco.com> from "Yakov Rekhter" at Aug 11, 95 12:52:13 pm


As others have pointed out, if all the router has to store is simple 
routes, say one entry containing a byte representing the interface
for every /24 address there is, life is easy.  16MB and you can 
efficiently route 16M routes on a router with much simpler software
and cpu demands.


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