On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 1:45 PM, David Conrad <d...@virtualized.org> wrote: > On Mar 19, 2013, at 10:12 AM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.li...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> There's nothing inherent in BGP that would not work with an >> unconstrained growth of the routing table, right? You just need enough >> bandwidth and interrupts to deal with updates. > > With enough thrust, pigs fly quite well. Landing can get messy though...
I was being serious... the current 'bgp unconstrained dies' problem isn't such a problem if you have (today): 4-8 cores 16 gb ram ssd gigabit ethernet or as you'd call this, your desktop computer... trying to do this on a 600mhz mips with 512mb ram is, clearly, a problem. put modern hardware to work and it gets simpler. Yes, the above addresses getting/sending 'rib' data, it doesn't address programming a FIB, but rethinking the programming of the fib a bit could, I bet, even get us to a palatable point for a longer while, in a relatively short period of time. -chris
