[25418] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Regarding global BGP community values
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Wed Oct 13 01:29:16 1999
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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 22:27:54 -0700
From: Tony Li <tony1@home.net>
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To: "Alex P. Rudnev" <alex@virgin.relcom.eu.net>
Cc: danny@ice.ip.qwest.net, "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
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"Alex P. Rudnev" wrote:
> The growth itself do not cause the problems, but in conjunction with the
> poor router implementation (which cause 60,000 routes to use 30 MB of the
> RAM - that means 500 bytes for every prefix -:) and numerous memory leaks
> in the router implementation cause the problem. If we look around, we'll
> see existing computers (including embedded ones) have not CPU and memory
> problems, and all problems we see with the routers are mainly caused by
> the bad implemented text.
I, and the rest of the Internet community, would like to invite you to start a
router company and show us how it can be done with far less memory.
;-)
More seriously, you might take a look around and note that there are not a
great deal of difference in the amount of memory needed to support a prefix
across the various well-known implementations. Which is not to say that we're
blameless, just that a lot of good people have worked hard and are all equally
incompetent at conserving memory while simultaneously producing a scalable,
stable, feature-rich implementation.
Regards,
Tony
