Routing table growth

Thu Apr 4 19:31:31 UTC 1996

On Apr 3, 22:58, Andrew Partan <asp at partan.com> wrote:
> Subject: Routing table growth
> We are starting to get reports from some of our (multihomed)
> customers that full routing tables will no longer fit in 32Meg
> routers.
> 
> How many others are seeing this?

Yes ... we will be replacing most 32M routers.  With 34k routes
there's ~10M left in a 32M router, but this can turn into a squeeze
when it's sending lots of updates to many peers.  I've seen up to
several hundred packets queued for each peer.  So, for instance, 400
packets * 1500(?) bytes = 600kbytes per peer.  With few peers, no
problem; with more than a dozen, it's getting close to a no-go.

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