On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 09:27:21AM -0600, Me wrote:
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Karl Denninger wrote:
Balderdash. The cost of a few SIMMs in routers pales beyond the market damage that comes from not being able to get where your customers want to go.
Protecting provider's hardware budgets is not part of a registry's job.
I don't think the cost of having enough memory was the issue, it was the physical ability of the router's cpu to handle updating the routing table with that many routes...
Sean Mentzer Qwest Communications IP Engineering 303-226-6770
Aggressively dampening flaps solves that problem. Entropy is controllable; the issue was presented as being one of table space (much as it was when the AGS+ ran out of space until the 7000/SSP was introduced) -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@denninger.net) http://www.mcs.net/~karl I ain't even *authorized* to speak for anyone other than myself, so give up now on trying to associate my words with any particular organization.