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Re: Sprint's filtering
From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer () mhsc com>
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 09:07:03 -0700
At 09:27 AM 10/8/98 -0600, Me wrote:
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Karl Denninger wrote:Balderdash. The cost of a few SIMMs in routers pales beyond the market damage that comes from not being able to get where your customers want to go. Protecting provider's hardware budgets is not part of a registry's job.I don't think the cost of having enough memory was the issue, it was the physical ability of the router's cpu to handle updating the routing table with that many routes...
The key word is "was". Since then, Moore's Law has taken us to routers that can handle the load better. ___________________________________________________ Roeland M.J. Meyer, ISOC (InterNIC RM993) e-mail: <mailto:rmeyer () mhsc com>rmeyer () mhsc com Internet phone: hawk.mhsc.com Personal web pages: <http://www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer>www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer Company web-site: <http://www.mhsc.com/>www.mhsc.com/ ___________________________________________ I bet the human brain is a kludge. -- Marvin Minsky
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