[39574] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: When will 128M not be enough?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Kuhtz)
Sun Jul 15 21:20:09 2001
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 21:19:16 -0400
From: Christian Kuhtz <ck@arch.bellsouth.net>
To: "Nipper, Arnold" <arnold@nipper.de>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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In-Reply-To: <001401c10d94$b96a0ae0$0190a8c0@nipper.de>; from Nipper, Arnold on Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:14:53AM +0200
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Well, you don't _have_ to buy your DRAM from Crisco...
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:14:53AM +0200, Nipper, Arnold wrote:
>
> mike harrison schrieb:
>
> > > peering with another major provider? Do you just send half of your
> traffic
> > > to that provider to nowhere? If you want fault tolerance against
> > > connectivity losses, you need full routes.
> >
> > I tried partial... after changing which upstream provider was
> > my 'default route' a few times I quickly realized this was
> > stupid. Ram and CPU is cheap enough to make full routes,
> > even on a Cisco, a VERY desirable thing.
> >
>
> Upgrading a 2650 to 128MB for USD 5,700 is not just cheap. The box itself is
> around USD 3,300 ...
>
>
> Arnold
>
>
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Christian Kuhtz <ck@arch.bellsouth.net> -wk, <ck@gnu.org> -hm
Sr. Architect, Engineering & Architecture, BellSouth.net, Atlanta, GA, U.S.
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