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Re: routing meltdown
From: Paul A Vixie <paul () vix com>
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 15:08:47 -0700
As Paul Traina took the time to pound into my skull some time last year, all difficult performance problems (CPU, memory, whatever) having to do with BGP4 are due to the number of views, not the number of prefixes. 30,000 prefixes will fit in a 16MB router -- if you have only one view of each prefix. You can do route processing for 30,000 prefixes using a CSC3 CPU -- if you only have one view of each prefix. If the multiple AS paths are only known to a colocated workstation running GateD, then the iBGP from that workstation to the router(s) will only include one view of each prefix. And the workstation can fall back on VM during times when the number of prefixes or views exceeds planning. And finally, the workstation's memory is probably not going to be limited to 64MB. I clearly think that colocated workstations are better than route processors inside the routers themselves. I'm less certain that they are better than route servers and a unified/recursive/realtime RADB. I'm not sure at all that any interconnect can, should, or ever shall require this kind of dual- routing setup for its members. In other words, why are we discussing this?
Current thread:
- Re: routing meltdown Nicolas Williams (Aug 10)
- Re: routing meltdown Jon Zeeff (Aug 11)
- Re: routing meltdown Yakov Rekhter (Aug 11)
- Re: routing meltdown Jon Zeeff (Aug 11)
- Re: routing meltdown Yakov Rekhter (Aug 11)
- Re: routing meltdown William B. Norton (Aug 11)
- Re: routing meltdown Nicolas Williams (Aug 11)
- Re: routing meltdown Yakov Rekhter (Aug 11)
- Re: routing meltdown Jon Zeeff (Aug 11)
- Re: routing meltdown Paul A Vixie (Aug 11)
- Re: routing meltdown Nicolas Williams (Aug 11)
- Re: routing meltdown Paul A Vixie (Aug 11)
- Re: routing meltdown Nicolas Williams (Aug 12)
- Re: routing meltdown Yakov Rekhter (Aug 11)
- Re: routing meltdown Jon Zeeff (Aug 11)
- Re: routing meltdown Nicolas Williams (Aug 11)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: routing meltdown Sean Doran (Aug 11)
- Re: routing meltdown Curtis Villamizar (Aug 11)
- Re: routing meltdown Jerry Scharf (Aug 11)
- Re: routing meltdown Jon Zeeff (Aug 11)
- Re: routing meltdown Yakov Rekhter (Aug 11)
- Re: routing meltdown Jon Zeeff (Aug 11)