[29452] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: using IRR tools for BGP route filtering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Danny McPherson)
Fri Jun 23 15:51:25 2000
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From: Danny McPherson <danny@tcb.net>
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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 13:50:16 -0600
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> As has been observed many times on NANOG, one of the advantages that a
> circuit-switched network like the PSTN has over a packet-switched network
> like the Internet is that the PSTN has leisurely call setup times and
> relatively infrequent routing table lookups. No long-distance carrier
> processes even 100 million phone calls in a day networkwide; yet there
> are many routers which process billions of packets daily *per interface*.
I suppose for one this depends on your definition of leisurely,
though I certainly agree with your point. I believe the lack of
pre-populated "forwarding tables" in the PSTN is also a major
difference, and a major factor in circuit setup time...
The comments regarding number allocation and portability were
more so related to the attributes of PSTN datatbase (E800, LIDB,
PVN, etc..) versus forwarding capabilities.
-danny
