[43033] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Gorgon's Knot. Was: Re: Verio Peering Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob K)
Fri Sep 28 15:49:02 2001
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 15:44:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bob K <melange@yip.org>
To: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@gitoyen.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Friday 28 September 2001, at 18 h 17,
> "Joseph T. Klein" <jtk@titania.net> wrote:
>
> > would have problems given larger route tables. We all don't have routers
> > that can easily chew through a 100,000+ line BGP table.
>
> I believe it is a legend. Unless you use Cisco 25xx to have a full BGP feed.
>
> Any Taiwan-made PC can swallow much more. The limit is not clear but is
> certainly far away from us.
I'm pretty sure the limitations are dependant on how much memory one has
in one's routers as opposed to the type of router used. (ie, a 75xx would
run into problems if it has 128MB of RAM but not if it has 256MB given a
100k+ line BGP table)
(But *please* correct me if I'm wrong)
--
Bob <melange@yip.org> | We're all wrong.
