[24187] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OSPF multi-level hierarch: side question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Meuse)
Fri May 28 03:00:40 1999
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 02:58:52 -0400
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
From: Steve Meuse <smeuse@bbnplanet.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199905272233.PAA21921@kitty.kotovnik.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 03:33 PM 05/27/1999 -0700, Vadim Antonov wrote:
>
>Tony Li <tony1@home.net> wrote:
>
>>I suspect that the main driver is not the amount of routing information
>>in the gross sense, but the scalability of the protocol as the number of
>>nodes increases.
>
>There's a better solution: decrease the number of nodes by replacing
>clusters with bigger boxes. This has an additional advantage of reducing
>number of hops (and, consequently, latency variance).
>
>K.I.S.S. rulez :)
>
>--vadim
Side question:
At what point do we stop aggregating customers onto a single box? The
technology exists now to have hundreds if not thousands of customers on a
signle box, but, Do we want that many?
-Steve
