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Tony Li previously wrote: > The original post was about making time at the Pittsburg NANOG meeting > to talk about solutions to the problem of some exchange routers seeing > tens of thousands (even 100x) paths. The size of a full-Internet route > table is growing (albeit more slowly than it used to), the number of > ASes meeting at the various NAPs and MAEs is increasing, etc. Will the > number of paths heard by some routers at the XPs ever be so large that > they don't fit in the 7000 or 4500m's 64MB of RAM? Possibly (IMHO, > likely). What then? Use lots of filtering to keep the number of paths > heard down and lose flexibility? >Then I ask you to sign a nondisclosure agreement. ;-) Oh, then the whole argument is for naught. :) >We've actually been very good (some say too good) about adding >features. Yes, Cisco is very good about adding software features and even about allowing its customers to beta test software. >Tony > Nick
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