[nsp] OSPF routes

Rick Irving rirving@onecall.net
Wed, 04 Dec 2002 07:05:00 -0500


"Stephen J. Wilcox" wrote:
> i assume even with a big cpu this number of routes will be a reconvergence
> (major dijska running!) nightmare to any system tho? ..

  If it wasn't, we wasted a whole lot of time with BGP, and CEF, eh ?
 
  Vector based protocols don't scale well. 

  History lesson: See the death of RIP in the Core.

  FWIW, I really liked the earlier Cisco-esque comment,
  a true networking classic:

  "Run it on a 7200, you'll get lots of -features-..."

  :P