On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 1:45 PM, David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org> wrote:
On Mar 19, 2013, at 10:12 AM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
There's nothing inherent in BGP that would not work with an unconstrained growth of the routing table, right? You just need enough bandwidth and interrupts to deal with updates.
With enough thrust, pigs fly quite well. Landing can get messy though...
I was being serious... the current 'bgp unconstrained dies' problem isn't such a problem if you have (today): 4-8 cores 16 gb ram ssd gigabit ethernet or as you'd call this, your desktop computer... trying to do this on a 600mhz mips with 512mb ram is, clearly, a problem. put modern hardware to work and it gets simpler. Yes, the above addresses getting/sending 'rib' data, it doesn't address programming a FIB, but rethinking the programming of the fib a bit could, I bet, even get us to a palatable point for a longer while, in a relatively short period of time. -chris