Linux Router KIT

Sat Oct 31 06:38:39 UTC 1998

On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Jon Lewis wrote:

> Where/how are you doing simulations with that many routes?  Feeding full
> routes to a linux 2.0.3x box running gated, I get:
> 
> # cat /proc/net/route | wc -l
>   54677
> and that command takes 13s to complete.  When dealing with that many
> routes on a *nix box, better tools would be nice.  On my 3640, I can do a
> show ip route blah, and get immediate response.  On the linux box above, I
> have no such tool.  I should fire up a copy of gated 4.x and see how gii
> performs, but its kind of a drag not being allowed to use the newer code
> on anything but personal testing/development systems.

I agree, this is a big gaping hole in functionality. This has to go into
gated because only gated has useful information like what the AS path for
the route is, etc.

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