[2349] in North American Network Operators' Group
Death of the net traced to aversion to workstations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Zeeff)
Thu Apr 4 09:45:32 1996
From: jon@branch.com (Jon Zeeff)
To: stuart@pa.dec.com (Stephen Stuart)
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 09:44:10 -0500 (EST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, stuart@pa.dec.com
In-Reply-To: <9604040615.AA19879@nsl-too.pa.dec.com> from "Stephen Stuart" at Apr 3, 96 10:15:55 pm
> Apples and oranges, probably, but Digital's routers in Palo Alto (a
> pair of AlphaStation 200s, each with 128MB of memory and a pair of
> FDDI boards) have a kernel routing table size of 8735 Kbytes (9178
> Kbytes peak). The virtual size of the gated process is 27.9Mbytes. We
> get full routing tables from Alternet and BBN Planet, and however many
It sounds like the tables can get a whole lot larger before you even have to
add more memory. It also sounds like the routing table itself would fit
in just about any router.
I wonder if this gives anyone any ideas as to how one might avoid near term
restrictions on the number of routes and still use current router
hardware.
PS - as mentioned before, you can put 16 million routes in 8-16MB of memory
if you do it right.
