On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 03:29:10PM +0100, Carlos Morgado wrote:
Why do we try to fix an engineering problem (scaling global routing mesh (BGP)) with unworkable IP address distribution policies???
Because nobody came up with a fix to the BGP scalability issues yet...?
isn't "memory is cheap" the mantra nowadays ?
RAM is only a problem for some vendor's gear. The main problem is route convergence. BGP is designed with two assumptions in mind: - many routes - fairly stable topology The more routes, the higher the convergence times... and this is does not scale linear.
Ah. Yes, do tell 500000 customer and 4 diferent billing/provisioning system type ISPs to renumber if they change upstream provider. That will make you popular :)
:-) Regards, Daniel