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On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Joseph T. Klein wrote: > Having hopelessly screwed up my facts ... I was trying to make a point here. > So the router was worse than I thought. Retaing policies that exclude > new players because of AGS+'s inability to handle large routing flaps > just does not cut it. > > Sprint imposed this at a time when 7000s with 64M of memory where available. > Will /19 remain policy when the majors are running with Cisco 12000 and GRFs? > Lots of stuff cut out. > > BTW - If you use a route server to do the dampening and calculation of peer > routes you can even make a wimpy CPUed 7000 handle backbone traffic. This is what I beleave sprint is doing. They are using the new Cisco 12000 GSR with external router servers. It is a smart way of patching the problem. If you need more CPU or memory you can just add a bigger box and more RAM. Nathan Stratton President, CTO, NetRail,Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phone (888)NetRail NetRail, Inc. Fax (404)522-1939 230 Peachtree Suite 500 WWW http://www.netrail.net/ Atlanta, GA 30303 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "No king is saved by the size of his army; no warrior escapes by his great strength. - Psalm 33:16
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