[85881] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Scalability issues in the Internet routing system
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andre Oppermann)
Tue Oct 18 14:44:01 2005
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:43:28 +0200
From: Andre Oppermann <nanog-list@nrg4u.com>
To: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20051018122842.074b79e8@mail.amaranth.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Daniel Senie wrote:
[many interesting hw design approaches that you can buy already deleted]
> I should point out that none of this really is about scalability of the
> routing system of the Internet, it's all about hardware and software
> design to allow the present system to scale. Looking at completely
> different and more scalable routing would require finding a better way
> to do things than the present BGP approach.
I disagree. By your description there is no problem scaling the current
model to much bigger numbers of prefixes and paths. Then why not simply
do it??? Apparently there ain't a problem then?
For routing you have to ways: The BGP (DFZ) way or the aggregation (by
whatever arbitrary level/layer divider de jour) way. If you have third,
different (not just a modification or merge of partial aspects of the
former two) you may be eglible for a Nobel prize in mathematics in a
few decades. They run behind a bit, you know...
--
Andre
