[lir-wg] Discussion about RIPE-261

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 03:20:07PM -0700, Michel Py wrote:
> You get it backwards. It is in the best interest of the router cartel to
> continue riding Moore's law forever and end up with a billion entries in
> the routing table which would allow them to keep renewing the installed
> router base every other year because naturally they cap memory and CPU
> in every model for the sole of being able to sell you a stinkin' new one
> two years later. And yes I am a stockholder of the router cartel.

This depends of your choice of vendor. Vendor J's routers took "only"
a 266MHz CPU and 256M RAM (please correct me if I'm wrong here with the
historic data) a couple of years back, but now you can put a new
routing engine with 600MHz and 2G RAM into them without buying a
whole new router and interfaces. And I guess when the next generation
of REs comes out, you can put them into all boxes down to the smallest
one [of the series] as well.

People might want to consider such things in their shopping checklist.
Not every vendor plays those games (to this extend).


Regards,
Daniel