[c-nsp] ISP / MPLS "POP" design

Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer) oboehmer at cisco.com
Thu Nov 7 03:53:43 EST 2013


 
>On Wednesday, November 06, 2013 04:43:22 PM Oliver Boehmer
>(oboehmer) wrote:
>
>> No, and neither does ISIS, and I am not aware of any such
>> a requirement. Seriously?
>
>Yeah, millions of IGP entries is not a typical requirement,
>AFAIK. BGP issues don't necessarily propagate to the IGP
>:-).
>
>I think any IGP would fall over before it gets to 1,000,000
>entries, simply because of the nature of the link-state
>protocol design.

no doubt here.. hence I really wonder who would ever put forward such a
requirement (and Adam added a smiley, so not sure ;-)..
We have unified-mpls to scale to very large MPLS domains, but the IGP
certainly doesn't need to scale anywhere close to this..

	oli




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