[98475] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: too many variables
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Thu Aug 9 17:14:54 2007
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 21:08:05 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.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
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 02:56:31PM -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
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>
> On Aug 9, 2007, at 12:21 PM, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
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> > 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" .
sure... how often do you completely swap out all your router
processors? anyone running something other than BGP4? (BGP3
and EGP don't count)
>
> Cordially
>
> Patrick Giagnocavo
> patrick@zill.net
>
>
