[43154] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: The Gorgon's Knot. Was: Re: Verio Peering Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Sun Sep 30 18:34:30 2001
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From: "Deepak Jain" <deepak@ai.net>
To: "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <babydr@baby-dragons.com>,
"Stephane Bortzmeyer" <bortzmeyer@gitoyen.net>
Cc: "Joseph T. Klein" <jtk@titania.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 18:37:06 -0400
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Lucent's Optistar line is available in OC12 and OC48 versions.
Deepak Jain
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From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
Mr. James W. Laferriere
Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 1:02 PM
To: Stephane Bortzmeyer
Cc: Joseph T. Klein; nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: The Gorgon's Knot. Was: Re: Verio Peering Question
Hello All, Darn I hate this , But I have to chime in here .
On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Friday 28 September 2001, at 20 h 6,
> "Joseph T. Klein" <jtk@titania.net> wrote:
> > Yeah right. I suggest you look at real world loaded 7200s. They have
> > problems with full routing tables.
> I don't know, I don't use Ciscos and I don't regret it.
> > >Any Taiwan-made PC can swallow much more. The limit is not clear but is
> > >certainly far away from us.
> > I want to you to put a couple of channelized DS-3s, an ATM OC12c,
> > and a POS OC48c to your backbone plus all the BGP peers you can sign
> > up at AADS on a PC.
> Come on, I did not say that a PC can handle everything, just that it can
> handle easily 100k routes.
It is now quite possible to have a 64bit pci system with an oc-48
card in it . Check around folks they are there . Not cheap at
all but available . The chennelised cards may be a little harder
to find but I'd even bet they're out there already . I do know
the oc-12c cards are . Try Marconi or InterPhase or ...
> I don't know the limit but neither do you (did you try the funny
experiment
> you suggest or are you just guessing?) The only thing I'm sure, because I
run
> it daily, is that 100k routes is not a lot for today's machines.
Joe May darned well have tried ;-) . But I and maybe a few others
may even know that the Larger optical cards are available . I
sure have not seen any mention on this list about them . Or any
other lists for that matter . Twyl , JimL
> > The black and white simplicity expressed by people on this forum is
> > unbelievable.
> The ability of some people to continue the discussion about the "routing
table
> explosion" legend as if we were still in a world of 64 mega-bytes routers
> (with a Motorola 68020) is unbelievable.
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