> I might have used a wrong word "edge"; someone > closer to operations might help here.
in the organization that I am familiar with "edge" or distribution router aggregates accesses from customer premise routers. Distribution routers connect upstream to core routers. If I am not mistaken core routers also interconnect peer/transit ISPs. Thanks, Peter --- On Tue, 5/27/08, Lixia Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Lixia Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [RRG] Consensus? IPv4 scaling problem must be solved directly, > not by relying on migration to IPv6 > To: "rrg" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, May 27, 2008, 9:53 AM > On May 27, 2008, at 2:55 AM, Pekka Savola wrote: > > > On Tue, 27 May 2008, Lixia Zhang wrote: > >> As I've heard from a few big operators, their > shared issue is the > >> scale limitation of their edge boxes --- they > could buy a small > >> number of core routers that can handle large > tables, but they could > >> not afford replacing hundreds or even up to > thousands edge routers > >> that have limited capacity. > > > > I have to wonder which edge boxes we're thinking > of. Edges towards > > other ISPs (peering etc.)? Edges towards customers? > The latter in > > some cases might be easier -- it may not be required > to carry the > > full routing table on each and every customer-facing > router. > > I might have used a wrong word "edge"; someone > closer to operations > might help here. But the stories I heard are about the ISP > routers > that do carry the full table. > > Lixia > > -- > to unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the > word 'unsubscribe' in a single line as the message > text body. > archive: <http://psg.com/lists/rrg/> & > ftp://psg.com/pub/lists/rrg -- to unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe' in a single line as the message text body. archive: <http://psg.com/lists/rrg/> & ftp://psg.com/pub/lists/rrg
