[2364] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Routing table growth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Per Gregers Bilse)
Thu Apr 4 14:33:08 1996
From: Per Gregers Bilse <bilse@EU.net>
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 21:31:31 +0200
In-Reply-To: <199604040358.WAA07188@home.partan.com>
To: Andrew Partan <asp@partan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
On Apr 3, 22:58, Andrew Partan <asp@partan.com> wrote:
> Subject: Routing table growth
> We are starting to get reports from some of our (multihomed)
> customers that full routing tables will no longer fit in 32Meg
> routers.
>
> How many others are seeing this?
Yes ... we will be replacing most 32M routers. With 34k routes
there's ~10M left in a 32M router, but this can turn into a squeeze
when it's sending lots of updates to many peers. I've seen up to
several hundred packets queued for each peer. So, for instance, 400
packets * 1500(?) bytes = 600kbytes per peer. With few peers, no
problem; with more than a dozen, it's getting close to a no-go.
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