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Re: The Gorgon's Knot. Was: Re: Verio Peering Question

  • From: Patrick Greenwell
  • Date: Fri Sep 28 17:19:21 2001 
On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Sean M. Doran wrote:

> So we should throw away all the 7200s and similar routers today
> because they are in the way of growing numbers of long prefixes,
> replacing them with new routers manufactured since the time of
> the above-mentioned lesson?   And when shall we throw away
> the 12000s and similar routers (or components thereof) because
> they are underpowered in the face of routing-table growth, compared
> to well-established alternatives?

Still using an 8086 for a desktop?

Obsolences does happen....