North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: The Gorgon's Knot. Was: Re: Verio Peering Question
Hello All, Darn I hate this , But I have to chime in here . On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Friday 28 September 2001, at 20 h 6, > "Joseph T. Klein" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yeah right. I suggest you look at real world loaded 7200s. They have > > problems with full routing tables. > I don't know, I don't use Ciscos and I don't regret it. > > >Any Taiwan-made PC can swallow much more. The limit is not clear but is > > >certainly far away from us. > > I want to you to put a couple of channelized DS-3s, an ATM OC12c, > > and a POS OC48c to your backbone plus all the BGP peers you can sign > > up at AADS on a PC. > Come on, I did not say that a PC can handle everything, just that it can > handle easily 100k routes. It is now quite possible to have a 64bit pci system with an oc-48 card in it . Check around folks they are there . Not cheap at all but available . The chennelised cards may be a little harder to find but I'd even bet they're out there already . I do know the oc-12c cards are . Try Marconi or InterPhase or ... > I don't know the limit but neither do you (did you try the funny experiment > you suggest or are you just guessing?) The only thing I'm sure, because I run > it daily, is that 100k routes is not a lot for today's machines. Joe May darned well have tried ;-) . But I and maybe a few others may even know that the Larger optical cards are available . I sure have not seen any mention on this list about them . Or any other lists for that matter . Twyl , JimL > > The black and white simplicity expressed by people on this forum is > > unbelievable. > The ability of some people to continue the discussion about the "routing table > explosion" legend as if we were still in a world of 64 mega-bytes routers > (with a Motorola 68020) is unbelievable. +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network Engineer | P.O. Box 854 | Give me Linux | | [email protected] | Coudersport PA 16915 | only on AXP | +------------------------------------------------------------------+
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