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Re: PC Routers (was Re: /24s run amuck)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (james)
Wed Jan 14 17:37:42 2004

From: "james" <hackerwacker@cybermesa.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 15:37:06 -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


: o) This may be fixed but I found it slow to update the kernel routing table
: which isnt designed to take 120000 routes being added at once
: 
: Icky, could perhaps cause issues if theres a major reconvergence due to an 
: adjacent backbone router failing etc, might be okay tho


This is the general feeling on the Quagga list; that many limitations
are not the routing daemon(s) themselves but the underlying OS and
kernel.  

james
 


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