Advice on dealing with Sprint

Thu Sep 26 17:15:05 UTC 1996

> Avi Freedman writes:
> >Yes, a huge IGP (thousands of routes) is an issue that most people
> >choosing 4500s vs. 7010s don't have to face :)
> 
> Hey, we have less than a thousand routes in our IGP. :-)
> 
> More seriously, they don't have to face that issue, but 8 MB of
> headroom is not very much. Once you get to much less than 3 or 4 MB
> things can get interesting due to transients.

If you're very paranoid it can help some (don't accept any routes from
any of your peers from any other, and none of your peers will send
you huge numbers of routes unless they're REALLY misconfigured and are
seriously mungeing AS-PATHs.

But yes, I'd agree - and buffer space can be a transient additional
memory requirement also.

> (For those buying 32MB routers, just make sure they can be upgraded to
> 64MB. The day of reckoning for 64MB routers is still a while off.)

Sigh, you can always hostile-aggegate, but one doesn't like to do that...

Avi