North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Regarding global BGP community values
> Speaking about the CISCO's, no one thought about the > memory when realised BGP there; the worst failures in the CISCO history > was caused by some _temporary_ prefix leaks which caused routers to eat > memory _permanently_ (last case was in our network 1 week ago when we > leaked extra 20,000 prefixes to our access routers; it was fixed in a 5 > minutes, but more then half of them get stomachache and refuse to > work even when this leak disappeared... I don't blame the > software > designers, they must found the compromise between the stability, > time_to_implement, cost and memory, but I'd like to highlight that they > really did not concerned > about such _cheap_ thing as memory at all). (let me to put -:) here). On behalf of {myself, Paul, Ravi, Enke}, I assure you that Cisco's BGP has _always_ been worried about conserving memory. Tony
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