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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Faster 'Net growth rate raises fears about routers
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001, Travis Pugh wrote: > > > Not to oversimplify, but assuming we can continue to separate forwarding > from the routing process itself, is this really a situation that calls for > a complete redesign of BGP? If you look at the routing processors on > Cisco and Juniper hardware, Cisco's GSR is using a 200Mhz MIPS RISC > processor and Juniper is using a 333Mhz Mobile Pentium II. > > With RISC reaching 1Ghz and Intel pushing 2Ghz, it appears that the actual > processors in use by the 2 big vendors are a couple of years behind. What > happens to the boxes ability to process a 500,000 route table if you > quadruple it's memory and give it 5 times more processing power? > > Also, it would likely require a re-write of software, but what's keeping > us from using SMP in routers? Performance of a routing protocol is not a function of just the CPU avaliable. Performance of a routing protocol is a function of the CPU avaliable and the network characteristics. *shakes head* people keep forgetting this. Do you guys also think you can solve the internets problems by adding more bandwidth? Adrian -- Adrian Chadd "The fact you can download a 100 megabyte file <[email protected]> from half way around the world should be viewed as an accident and not a right." -- Adrian Chadd and Bill Fumerola
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