[c-nsp] Growing BGP tables

[Stephen J. Wilcox]

On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Gert Doering wrote:

> > > Most end-sites these days don't carry a full table anymore anyway, due to
> > > "it won't fit in my 3640".
> > i'm not seeing this in practice. afaik most of our custs take whatever we
> > give
> 
> Just read through the archives of this group alone - once per month, someone
> asks how to do "BGP" with a sales-impaired product (like a Cisco 3550 etc),
> and one of the standard answers is "take two default routes plus customer
> routes of your upstream".

not sure who they are or why they are doing that.. at the low end afaik folks 
are happy using quagga which can hold full tables and probably forward traffic 
better than some of those old 26xx 36xx ciscos

Steve