[c-nsp] Growing BGP tables

[Ian Dickinson]

Ryan O'Connell wrote:
> I've also heard (but been unable to verify) that Engine 0 and 1 line 
> cards for the GSR won't be able to take a full routing table past a 
> certain point, which I know if it's true is going to cause a lot of 
> larger ISPs issues.

Will possibly happen around the same time as a VIP4-80 is out of time.
All the 0 and 1 beasties I've seen personally have 256Mb Route Memory.

It's a short while yet, and will happen eventually, but you can
probably kill the prefix-load easily enough by changing usage patterns,
as long as you have new iron for the full-table work.  I have some of
these older cards running with 200Mb free earning good revenue...

But the NPE-300 and 3660 et al will hit this problem first and soon.
-- 
Ian Dickinson
Development Engineer
PIPEX
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