Sprint's filtering

Thu Oct 8 16:07:03 UTC 1998

At 09:27 AM 10/8/98 -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...

The key word is "was". Since then, Moore's Law has taken us to routers that
can handle the load better.
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