[c-nsp] BGP table growth and memory

[Rodney Dunn]

That's the problem. We could never come to agreement on
how to implement it.

There were simply too many corner cases where things could
break and therefore the resistence to change anything was very
high.



On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 01:03:52PM -0400, lee.e.rian at census.gov wrote:
> Rodney Dunn <rodunn at cisco.com> wrote on 06/21/2005 10:30:07 AM:
> 
> > There are 3 cases attached to it.
> >
> > CSCsa45474
> > Externally found enhancement defect: New (N)
> > Ability to block overlapping BGP prefixes from being installed in RIB
> >
> > I tried pretty hard on this one but just couldn't move it along.
> >
> > With some more request I might could.
> 
> Could you explain how it would work again?  I didn't attach a case to the
> feature request because I didn't understand all the implications of not
> installing a more specific route if a less specific existed.
> 
> And this seems to be what started the thread up again:
> > Unfortunately, these days it seems to be "pretty normal" to have a /19
> > and announce it as 32 x /24, and similar garbage that has no benefit
> > for anyone.
> 
> My understanding is that even with this new feature it wouldn't make any
> difference to the routing table size if somebody advertised their /19 as 32
> x /24.  Correct?
> 
> Thanks,
> Lee
> 
> 
> > On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 12:07:24PM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 09:24:00AM +1000, David J. Hughes wrote:
> > > > hop.  It even got to the stage that Rodney Dunn had a TAC feature
> > > > request case opened for it so we could all voice our desire for a
> > > > feature that would increase the life span of our routers.  And when
> the
> > > > votes were counted only 2 people bothered to add their name to the
> > > > list.
> > >
> > > Hmmm.  At that time, I wasn't able to directly open TAC cases for our
> BGP
> > > routers (don't ask).  "In the near future", I will be :-) - so what's
> > > the feature request bug ID to attach to?  Is it publically visible?
> > >
> > > > P.s. thanks for letting me share your rant Gert ;-)
> > >
> > > Always at your service :-) - thanks for reminding me about this.
> > >
> > > gert
> > >
> > > --
> > > Gert Doering
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