In any case, I think the point is made that we can talk all we want about how we want <insert router vendor name here> to provide a truly high-end router that solves everything, but the reality of the cost pressure does need to be considered....
That is one major point, maybe the entire point.
This suggests a generally flatter architecture, maybe parallel. Still remember the supercomputer discussions a few years back when experts argued if either KSR or Thinking Machines is going to be *the* big win? And today when you need a lot of processing e.g. for rendering, you simply stick a couple dozen Pentiums on a fast switched ethernet.
Wolfgang Henke: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 10:16 AM
This suggests a generally flatter architecture, maybe parallel. Still remember the supercomputer discussions a few years back when experts argued if either KSR or Thinking Machines is going to be *the* big win?
And today when you need a lot of processing e.g. for rendering, you simply stick a couple dozen Pentiums on a fast switched ethernet.
What you are suggesting here is some form of distributed routing process. The current problem is that all the router protocols store all their data in talbes and they ALL have near identicle copies of these tables. BGP is simply a synchronization mechanism. In fact, all the routing protocols can be viewed as simple synchronization mechanisms. Re-architecting that structure is not going to be simple and could probably be the basis of an IETF working group. If the IAB could ever get off their political duff (and back to real work), maybe they could lead such an effort. These days, the IAB is too busy making political pronouncements that have nothing to do with internet architecture. Inertia is great/huge and that job is probably not do-able. Us mercenary commercial architects are not going to do it for free either.
In message <011401bfc026$f26ad0c0$eaaf6cc7@PEREGRIN>, "Roeland Meyer (E-mail)" writes:
These days, the IAB is too busy making political pronouncements that have nothing to do with internet architecture.
The IAB's job has been to make political announcements (and do a bit of internet architecture) since the second Boston Tea Party (as it is jokingly referred to) in 1990. Craig
Hi All, I am currently looking for a way to monitor my BGP sessions, possibly using HPOV. Does anyone know of a Cisco MIB which would enable me to get the state/number of routes received from each session. Thanks in advance - Alison
Alison, try asking this on cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
Hi All,
I am currently looking for a way to monitor my BGP sessions, possibly using HPOV. Does anyone know of a Cisco MIB which would enable me to get the state/number of routes received from each session.
Thanks in advance
- Alison
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