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Re: Routing table size for FP.

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From: Rocky
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 1989 05:36
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By the way, you will still have a limit of being able to only
configure about 64 routes via atalkatab even if you use our gateway
code. Atalkad is set up to send it all in one packet, which is limited
to the max size of a lap packet - somewhere around 600 bytes or so.
Also, when transfering the routing table between kboxes, the same
limits exist.

That is another reason I want to switch to using Ethertalk routing
instead of KIP routing. If we replaced our KFPS-2s with KFPS-4s and
gatorboxes, inidividually configure them without using atalkad, and
use Cisco's Ethertalk routing, we avoid any limitations of KIP.
Providing that 1) the Gatorbox like the K* uses dynamically allocated
tables, that 2) they can operate on the same networks, and that 
3) it all works correctly, I believe it might be possible to avoid any real
limitations other than memory on the Gatorbox, KFPS-4, and Ciscos.
Of course this is purely theoretical...


Rakesh Patel.
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From: rapatel@qbranch.rutgers.edu (Rocky)
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Subject: Re: Routing table size for FP.
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Date: 6 Jun 89 05:36:12 GMT
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