North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: virtual aggregation in IETF
Joel Jaeggli <[email protected]> writes: > That said I think you're headed to high end again. It has been > routinetly posited that fib growth hurts the people on the edge more > than in the center. I don't buy that for the reason outlined in my > original response. If my pps requirements are moderate my software > router can carry a fib of effectively arbitrary size at a lower cost > than carrying the same fib in cam. While that's true, planned obsolescence in terms of ram non-expandability from certain <cough> vendors leaves people on the edge (who often have to scrape by on thin budgets) hurting badly enough as to offset any theoretical software-vs-hardware router advantage they may have originally had. -r
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