Re: BGP Table is growwwinngg.

James D. Butt (jbutt@mwci.net)
Mon, 28 Jul 1997 10:58:31 -0500 (CDT)

> >One of our customers got an eMail message from their upstream bandwidth
> >provider today. Apparantly there has been a bit of a spurt of new routes
> >recently and the size of the Internet's BGP table has caused some
> >providers Cisco's with ONLY 32MB Ram to start falling over due to lack
> >of memory.
> >
> >Maybe LE should sell their BGP code to Cisco as 'according to LE' they
> >can fit the entire table (at it's current size) in a measley 16M.

No they can do the full table in much much less than 16 MB.

I think it was like 6 MB for the full table and 2.5Meg each additional
view.. This is comming from my head so it might not be accurate.

>
> Actually I have full routes (45K routes) (two copies) in a Cisco 7010 and
> it seems to take up 21 MB (of 64) and I have heard of people who have one
> copy on a 16MB 2501. So the ability is not a Livingston-only thing. Since

The 2501 can not do the full table and be stable.

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