Nathan, You will believe it when you try to widen your view. Thanks and so long. --Jessica Date: Tue, 02 Sep 1997 13:27:00 -0000 To: Jessica Yu <jyy@ans.net> cc: Damon Hammis <damonh@netrex.com>, nanog@merit.edu From: Nathan Stratton <nathan@netrail.net> Subject: Re: Anyone Deployed Ascend's GRF IP Switch? Return-Path: nathan@netrail.net In-Reply-To: <199709021635.MAA10661@cannes.aa.ans.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 1563 On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, Jessica Yu wrote:
Just curious, what is the size of the config file on your box?
It is not very large 169 lines on rt3.ATL. The size of the the gated file should not slow down the router. On rt2.DCA (or MAE-East router) the config is 458 lines and it takes the same time to load.
Unless you have other data to support, the fact that a box takes almost the same amount of time to load a 458 line config as a 169 liner does not at all lead to your conclusion above. Try to load a config file of size in MGs and see if it increases the loading period.
(BTW, in case you wonder, there are providers who have such large configuration files running on routers.)
Ah, I would like to see that. The largest gated file we have had was a little over 2000 lines. There are many things you can do to make the file smaller. I find it hard to beleave you can have a gated file longer then a few thousands lines that can not be compressed. Nathan Stratton President, CTO, NetRail,Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phone (888)NetRail NetRail, Inc. Fax (404)522-1939 230 Peachtree Suite 500 WWW http://www.netrail.net/ Atlanta, GA 30303 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "No king is saved by the size of his army; no warrior escapes by his great strength. - Psalm 33:16