Re: OSPF multi-level hierarch: side question

[Steve Meuse <smeuse () bbnplanet com>]

At 03:33 PM 05/27/1999 -0700, Vadim Antonov wrote:
> Tony Li <tony1 () home net> wrote:
>
> > I suspect that the main driver is not the amount of routing information
> > in the gross sense, but the scalability of the protocol as the number of
> > nodes increases.
>
> There's a better solution: decrease the number of nodes by replacing
> clusters with bigger boxes.  This has an additional advantage of reducing
> number of hops (and, consequently, latency variance).
>
> K.I.S.S. rulez :)
>
> --vadim

Side question:

At what point do we stop aggregating customers onto a single box? The
technology exists now to have hundreds if not thousands of customers on a
signle box, but, Do we want that many?

-Steve