[2440] in North American Network Operators' Group
Updates, peering & flaps [Was: RE: CIDR,Sprint and the Big
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Fri Apr 5 21:03:01 1996
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 21:00:29 -0500
To: "Kent W. England" <kwe@6SigmaNets.com>
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
At 05:12 PM 4/5/96 -0800, Kent W. England wrote:
>
>BTW, I thought it was the updates, peerings and flaps that was the true
>problem, not the absolute number of routing table entries.
>
>
I submit that its a combination of all the above, and that the problem
grows in scope as each linearly increase both in size and/or frequency.
Of course, route-dampening helps on one front, but its non-trivial to
code a smaller routing table when the number of routes increase. :-)
- paul
