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Re: "routing table slots" and the real problem
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso () cisco com>
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 00:28:12 -0500
At 01:25 PM 3/2/97, Joseph T. Klein wrote:
We are re-designing the Internet to make up for the fact the largest manufacturers of routers has been slow to develop and deploy systems that can keep up with the growth curve. A lot of this comes down to size of the memory bus on low cost systems.
Without launching into a long, tiresome response here, I would suggest that this is correct, yet incorrect. The statistics that I have seen indicates that we (collectively) are not behind the curve here. Of course, there are extraneous issues which do not relate to the router vendors (availability of fiber, etc.), but let's not go down that rat hole.
If router manufacturers worked on hardware and all used an open software standard ... such as gated ... we would all be better off. Open standards allow all of us to benefit from the work of others.
I like open standards just as much as the next guy, but let's be realistic here. There is a difference between 'open standards' with regards to getting bits from point a to point b (the protocols developed within the IETF and elsewhere) and operating systems. I would suggest that the former is much more important than the latter. - paul - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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- Re: "routing table slots" and the real problem, (continued)
- Re: "routing table slots" and the real problem Paul Ferguson (Mar 02)
- Re: "routing table slots" and the real problem Scott Bradner (Mar 02)
- Re: "routing table slots" and the real problem Paul Ferguson (Mar 02)
- Re: "routing table slots" and the real problem Joseph T. Klein (Mar 02)
- Re: "routing table slots" and the real problem Mr. Dana Hudes (Mar 03)
- Re: "routing table slots" and the real problem Joseph T. Klein (Mar 02)
- Re: "routing table slots" and the real problem Paul Ferguson (Mar 02)
- Re: "routing table slots" and the real problem Vadim Antonov (Mar 02)
- Re: "routing table slots" and the real problem Mike O'Dell (Mar 02)
- Re: "routing table slots" and the real problem Vadim Antonov (Mar 02)
- Re: "routing table slots" and the real problem Mike O'Dell (Mar 02)
- Re: "routing table slots" and the real problem Paul Ferguson (Mar 02)
- Re: "routing table slots" and the real problem Paul Ferguson (Mar 02)
- Re: "routing table slots" and the real problem Paul Ferguson (Mar 02)
- Re: "routing table slots" and the real problem Gary Zimmerman (Mar 03)
- Re: "routing table slots" and the real problem Nathan Stratton (Mar 03)
- Re: "routing table slots" and the real problem Justin W. Newton (Mar 03)
- Fw: "routing table slots" and the real problem Gary Zimmerman (Mar 05)