[273] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CIDR FAQ
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nicolas Williams)
Tue Aug 15 20:03:07 1995
From: Nicolas Williams <nmw@news.ios.com>
To: tli@cisco.com (Tony Li)
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 20:00:16 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199508152347.QAA23676@greatdane.cisco.com> from "Tony Li" at Aug 15, 95 04:47:09 pm
Tony Li previously wrote:
> The original post was about making time at the Pittsburg NANOG meeting
> to talk about solutions to the problem of some exchange routers seeing
> tens of thousands (even 100x) paths. The size of a full-Internet route
> table is growing (albeit more slowly than it used to), the number of
> ASes meeting at the various NAPs and MAEs is increasing, etc. Will the
> number of paths heard by some routers at the XPs ever be so large that
> they don't fit in the 7000 or 4500m's 64MB of RAM? Possibly (IMHO,
> likely). What then? Use lots of filtering to keep the number of paths
> heard down and lose flexibility?
>Then I ask you to sign a nondisclosure agreement. ;-)
Oh, then the whole argument is for naught. :)
>We've actually been very good (some say too good) about adding
>features.
Yes, Cisco is very good about adding software features and even about
allowing its customers to beta test software.
>Tony
>
Nick
