[99240] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Route table growth and hardware limits...talk to the filter
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Tue Sep 11 21:52:36 2007
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:53:15 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
Cc: North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0709111556200.24441@soloth.lewis.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007, Jon Lewis wrote:
> You could even do two different versions. A loose version that just
> throws out covered subnets with same as-path and a BOFH version that
> throws out all apparently gratuitous subnetting smaller than RIR
> minimums, but not all smaller than RIR minimum routes.
>
> I just wonder how huge the list would be and what the CPU and config size
> damage would be.
If only people were charged for CPU time and RIB hardware space
used on other peoples' routers to carry their stuff.
(<tongue, cheek, etc />)
Adrian
