[7928] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "routing table slots" and the real problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Sun Mar 2 14:09:14 1997
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 1997 13:46:48 -0500
To: Scott Bradner <sob@newdev.harvard.edu>
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@MERIT.EDU
At 01:33 PM 3/2/97 -0500, Scott Bradner wrote:
>
>Mike says
>--
>The REAL problem is the growing complexity of the ROUTING COMPUTATION,
>not the size of the resulting forwarding table. even if routers
>had infinite memory, we would still be crushed by the routing
>computation if allowed to grow unchecked.
>--
>
>and the frequency at which the computation must be done
>
>Scott
>
Ah, yes. Absolutely.
- paul
