[25421] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Regarding global BGP community values
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Wed Oct 13 04:49:03 1999
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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 01:44:54 -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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> Speaking about the CISCO's, no one thought about the
> memory when realised BGP there; the worst failures in the CISCO history
> was caused by some _temporary_ prefix leaks which caused routers to eat
> memory _permanently_ (last case was in our network 1 week ago when we
> leaked extra 20,000 prefixes to our access routers; it was fixed in a 5
> minutes, but more then half of them get stomachache and refuse to
> work even when this leak disappeared... I don't blame the
> software
> designers, they must found the compromise between the stability,
> time_to_implement, cost and memory, but I'd like to highlight that they
> really did not concerned
> about such _cheap_ thing as memory at all). (let me to put -:) here).
On behalf of {myself, Paul, Ravi, Enke}, I assure you that Cisco's BGP has _always_ been
worried about conserving memory.
Tony
