North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Sprint's filtering
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 09:27:21AM -0600, Me wrote: > On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Karl Denninger wrote: > > > > Balderdash. The cost of a few SIMMs in routers pales beyond the market > > damage that comes from not being able to get where your customers want to > > go. > > > > Protecting provider's hardware budgets is not part of a registry's job. > > > I don't think the cost of having enough memory was the issue, it was the > physical ability of the router's cpu to handle updating the routing table > with that many routes... > > Sean Mentzer > Qwest Communications > IP Engineering > 303-226-6770 Aggressively dampening flaps solves that problem. Entropy is controllable; the issue was presented as being one of table space (much as it was when the AGS+ ran out of space until the 7000/SSP was introduced) -- -- Karl Denninger ([email protected]) http://www.mcs.net/~karl I ain't even *authorized* to speak for anyone other than myself, so give up now on trying to associate my words with any particular organization.
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