Updates, peering & flaps [Was: RE: CIDR,Sprint and the Big Guys.]

[Paul Ferguson <pferguso () cisco com>]

At 05:12 PM 4/5/96 -0800, Kent W. England wrote:

> BTW, I thought it was the updates, peerings and flaps that was the true
> problem, not the absolute number of routing table entries.

I submit that its a combination of all the above, and that the problem
grows in scope as each linearly increase both in size and/or frequency.

Of course, route-dampening helps on one front, but its non-trivial to
code a smaller routing table when the number of routes increase.  :-)

- paul