[7940] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "routing table slots" and the real problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Sun Mar 2 17:45:16 1997
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 14:37:26 -0800
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>
To: mo@UU.NET, pferguso@cisco.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
>I have always subscribed to this fundamental concept; memory to
>accommodate N number of routes has never been an operational
>issue.
Not the case with one vendor's boxes. Memory _was_ the issue
after introducing CIDR. AGS/+s and early 7000s were running out
of memory, not out of CPU cycles.
--vadim
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