Then I ask you to sign a nondisclosure agreement. ;-)
Oh, then the whole argument is for naught. :)
Correct. Please fixate on the long term growth rate. That is key. Unless you want your PC to have Gigabytes of RAM.
Tony
Uh, I've seen PC's with Gigabytes of RAM, but have yet to hear of a router with such. CIDR is a bandaid. The problem is translating from from BGP to forwarding tables installed in routers. Current routers do not have enough BGP processing power to do the BGP filtering and processing power. The other problem is the mesh nature of BGP which makes any BGP peering site, with full mesh peering, an N^2 problem. By utilizing BGP "proxies", i.e. RS or Gated workstations, you can reduce the complexity of packet forwarding to a limit of the number of routes, and the number of updates (and RS or Gated workstations could impletement routing flap dampening). Seeing as memory is typical 1/2 the price for a workstation as for a Cisco router, you can almost aford to have 4 BILLION host routes in the workstation, compared to the cost of the replacing your entire backone with the Cisco of the Month Club. (Hm... thinking on this, a Cisco 7000 with just Ethernet, and 64Megs of memory, could work as a proxy BGP also.). -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Jeremy Porter (512)-339-6094 Freeside Communications, Inc. info@fc.net | | jerry@fc.net (512)-339-4466 (data) P.O. Box 530264 Austin, TX 78753 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------