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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: OSPF multi-level hierarchy: Necessary at all?
>Btw. Flat network... > >Routers now have - 128 or 256 MB RAM, 300 - 400 Mhz CPU. I guess you can >built flat betwork with 5,000 routers withouth hard problems. With a network this large, probability of any router interface going down, link flapping or rotuer failure is high so it can happen frequently. With one giant flat IGP area, any such incident occuring anywhere in the network will cause network wide LSA flooding, SPF calculation and link database update. Lots of network resources including router CPU will be consumed. Even one has a lot of cpu power in super routers, it's still a good idea to prevent an outage anywhere in the network from causing network wide event i.e. to localize the problem. A giant flat IGP area in a large network does not help achieving fault isolation. --Jessica
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