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Re: "routing table slots" and the real problem

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Mon Mar 3 00:34:29 1997

Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 00:28:15 -0500
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu

At 02:37 PM 3/2/97 -0800, Vadim Antonov wrote:

>
>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.
>

Witness the birth of boxes which have 32Mb, 64Mb, 128Mb, etc.,
memory.


>--vadim
>
>This message is brought to you by the society for history preservation :)
>

Yes, I know. I was there.  :-)

- paul


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