Re: Portmaster Users Digest V95 #319

Alex Rubenstein (alex@planet.net)
Fri, 24 Nov 1995 10:25:25 -0500 (EST)

> From: Russ Pagenkopf <russ@optim.ism.net>
> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 18:18:55 -0700 (MST)
> Subject: Re: Routers (fwd)
>
> - ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 15:25:52 -0700 (MST)
> Subject: Re: Routers
>
> >> Have you tried the Livingstons? I'd like to know (objectively, please)
> >> how they compare for moderately-intense useage.
>
> >I hear that performance drops severaly on the PM2eR when they are filled
> >with several hundred RIP routes. I've only heard this from one person, but
> >the numbers were down in the 100's of Kbps area.
>
> Anyone confirm or deny this?

I got an answer: Who cares?

If your network is configured with 'several hundred rip routes', you
should be more concerned on how inefficient your network is and not the
PM's abailty to store routes.