[98470] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: too many variables
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leigh Porter)
Thu Aug 9 15:11:02 2007
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:09:54 +0100
From: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
To: Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick@zill.net>
CC: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <9BECEC17-3705-4EF5-AF87-CD1EF81901FC@zill.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Yes a very big unless. Multi-core processors are already available that
would make very large BGP convergence possible. Change the algorithm as
well and perhaps add some multi-threading to it and it's even better.
--
Leigh Porter
Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
>
>
> On Aug 9, 2007, at 12:21 PM, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
>
>> so putting a stake in the ground, BGP will stop working @ around
>> 2,500,000 routes - can't converge... regardless of IPv4 or IPv6.
>> unless the CPU's change or the convergence algorithm changes.
>
> That is a pretty big "unless" .
>
> Cordially
>
> Patrick Giagnocavo
> patrick@zill.net
>
>
