Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 10:03:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any action on PR 10570 ? getting closer to 65K :-( Message-ID: <199905051703.KAA27003@apollo.backplane.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905041745510.39879-100000@zippy.machaon.ru> <E10eyoE-00055Q-00@fanf.noc.demon.net>
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:Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
:>
:> I think the worst case you might see is on the order of 50,000 or so
:> route entries.
:
:If you read the PR you'll see that we have over 70,000 routes on some
:interfaces in our network, and we aren't doing multipath routeing.
:(We have c. 20,000 modems and our customers have static IP addresses.)
:
:> It take a phenominally stupid network setup to create more then that.
:
::-)
:
:Tony.
We had a similar situation at BEST, but we realized fairly quickly
that static IP's would be disaster to route as our network grew. So
we stopped handing them out to 'normal' dialup customers and went
w/ dynamic IP assignment.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
:f.a.n.finch dot@dotat.at fanf@demon.net
:Arthur: "Oh, that sounds better, have you worked out the controls?"
:Ford: "No, we just stopped playing with them."
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