Re: The real problem

[Paul Ferguson <pferguso () cisco com>]

At 04:03 PM 3/2/97 -0600, Scott Huddle wrote:

> Mike,
>
> If I follow your observation, routing computation growth is
> non-linearly related to number of routes.  Or is it
> orthogonal?  If the growth is related to the announcement,
> this infers that costs incurred for the announcement of routes by 
> ISP FOO to ISP BAR would be non-linear with the quantity,
> correct?  

I would suggest that the number of prefixes in the global
routing table *is* linearly related to the amount of
computational overhead.

- paul

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