[24417] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Cidr Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Galbavy)
Mon Jun 28 04:31:38 1999
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 09:29:50 +0100
From: Peter Galbavy <Peter.Galbavy@knowledge.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu, eof-list@ripe.net, apops@apnic.net,
routing-wg@ripe.net
In-Reply-To: <199906251900.MAA12002@lovefm.cisco.com>; from Tony Bates on Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 12:00:02PM -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On the subject of the general number of routes increasing, has
everyone involved in the development or maintainence of their routers
checked that the 2^16 (65536) limit is not going to hit them.
I know that for those using PC routers, like my old colleagues at
Demon, it is important that you make sure that your OS is upgraded
to use a >16 bit int for a "reference count" to an interface. Andrew
Bangs @ Demon spotted this a while back and submitted patch to the
*BSD groups, of which I know OpenBSD has changed the reference count
to a 32 bit.
Once you add some IGP routes the 2^16 is coming up fast.
On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 12:00:02PM -0700, Tony Bates wrote:
> 0) General Status
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> Table History
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> Date Prefixes
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Peter Galbavy
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