Re: Sprint's filtering

[Karl Denninger <karl () mcs net>]

On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 09:27:21AM -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...
>
> Sean Mentzer
> Qwest Communications
> IP Engineering
> 303-226-6770

Aggressively dampening flaps solves that problem.  Entropy is controllable;
the issue was presented as being one of table space (much as it was when the
AGS+ ran out of space until the 7000/SSP was introduced)

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