Re: [WISPA] OSPF maximums

2009-10-29 Thread Nick Olsen
If I understand correctly, There is no limit. But I vaguely remember something about OSPF being unstable with 500+ routers. As you start to get to much crosstalk overhead. If its a big area you would need to do like OSPF and BGP I don't remember how it went, something like transit routes with

Re: [WISPA] OSPF maximums

2009-10-29 Thread Kevin Neal
I'm pretty sure the limit is just CPU/Memory. We currently 112 routing entries in one of our networks, this is on a network with 24 OSPF routers. -Kevin On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Jory Privett j...@wccs.net wrote: For all of you routing gurus out there,   On MikroTiks version,  or any

Re: [WISPA] OSPF maximums

2009-10-29 Thread Dennis Burgess
I think a good OSPF single area would be around 75 routers. Over that you get quite a bit of traffic. Not saying that this is a hard limit, just a rule of thumb. --- Dennis Burgess, CCNA, A+, Mikrotik Certified Trainer WISPA Board Member

Re: [WISPA] OSPF maximums

2009-10-29 Thread Matt Larsen - Lists
Using StarOS we have about 480 subnet routes propagating throughout our network. This represents approximately 220 routed devices. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com Dennis Burgess wrote: I think a good OSPF single area would be around 75 routers. Over that you get quite a bit of traffic. Not

Re: [WISPA] OSPF maximums

2009-10-29 Thread Butch Evans
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 10:33 -0500, Jory Privett wrote: For all of you routing gurus out there, On MikroTiks version, or any other brand, of OSPF what is the maximum number of routes or routers in a single OSPF Area? Is this only limitied by CPU/Memory or is there something else that

Re: [WISPA] OSPF maximums

2009-10-29 Thread Butch Evans
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 09:44 -0600, Kevin Neal wrote: I'm pretty sure the limit is just CPU/Memory. We currently 112 routing entries in one of our networks, this is on a network with 24 OSPF routers. Number of routes is not that much of a problem. I have one customer with about 8k OSPF

Re: [WISPA] OSPF maximums

2009-10-29 Thread Butch Evans
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 13:06 -0500, Butch Evans wrote: So, the short answer is: Keep the number of interfaces around (or below) 100 or so. I should add that I DO have customers who have well over 150 ROUTERS with multiple interfaces in a single area. This limit is not a hard limit. The other