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Re: too many routes


From: Tony Li <tli () juniper net>
Date: 15 Sep 1997 01:01:54 -0700



hannan () bythetrees com (Alan Hannan) writes:

  On that tangent, however, flooding is what we're
  mostly concerned about, and it's just not that bad.

Alan,

You are correctly concerned about flooding, however, I suspect that you're
underestimating the scalability problems of flooding.  Please recall that
it's O(n^2) in the number of nodes in your mesh.  This is a serious threat
to building very large domains.  In addition, the full mesh prevents
hierarchical abstraction within the domain, defeating the other obvious
mechanism for IGP scalability.

Tony


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