[305] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CIDR FAQ
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Wed Aug 16 14:26:41 1995
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 11:16:41 -0700
From: Tony Li <tli@cisco.com>
To: peter@demon.net
Cc: dsiegel@net99.net, jon@branch.com, sob@academ.com, bwatson@mci.net,
nathan@netrail.net, jerry@fc.net, inet-access@earth.com,
HANK@taunivm.tau.ac.il, cidrd@iepg.org, nanog@merit.edu,
local-ir@ripe.net, iap@vma.cc.nd.edu
In-Reply-To: <9508160859.aa23478@office.demon.net> (peter@demon.net)
> Let's excuse the fact that gated consumes more memory than a cisco for the
> same amount of routes for a second...
HA HA HA HA. Sorry, had to laugh. Is my PCI Pentium limited to 64Mb RAM
and can only carry ~30k routes? No.
Neither is your 7000. ;-) Wherever you got your numbers from,
they're wrong.
For a T1 line or Ethernet,
especially locally in the US (not here) the cost of the router *outweighs*
the cost of the line, and so commercial decisions will be made based on
router cost.
For a T1, perhaps the monthly charge, but over the lifetime of the
line, I don't believe this.
Tony
