[4721] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Advice on dealing with Sprint
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Hannan)
Thu Sep 26 14:10:45 1996
From: Alan Hannan <alan@anka.mindvision.com>
To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 12:30:13 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: jmalcolm@uu.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199609261751.NAA04795@jekyll.piermont.com> from "Perry E. Metzger" at Sep 26, 96 01:51:44 pm
> "Perry E. Metzger" writes:
> > Not, you understand, that I think the global routing table should be
> > kept in control,
>
> Obviously that was a typo -- I think everyone agrees that the global
> routing table *must* be kept in control...
Do they?
There is a rather large contingency of folks who feel the current
paradigms of global routing necessitate a table growth explosion.
Moving away from a BFR to a distributed switching system does have
merits. The assumption for this model is that the routing engine
for the switching systems grows exponentially.
I don't really buy into this point of view, but it is there...
-alan
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