RE: OSPF multi-level hierarch: side question

[Dan Rabb]

Routers will inevitably fail.  The question becomes how much exposure do you
want when it does?  Placing large amounts of customers on a single box is
more economical, and is long as you have an uplink to your network with
enough bandwidth to support them it's not a problem, but how many customers
do you want down when a single router fails?  This is obviously more of a
political question that an operational one.

Dan Rabb


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Meuse [mailto:smeuse@bbnplanet.com]
> Sent: 28 May, 1999 1:59 AM
> To: Vadim Antonov
> Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: OSPF multi-level hierarch: side question
> 
> 
> 
> At 03:33 PM 05/27/1999 -0700, Vadim Antonov wrote:
> >
> >Tony Li <tony1@home.net> wrote:
> >
> >>I suspect that the main driver is not the amount of routing 
> information
> >>in the gross sense, but the scalability of the protocol as 
> the number of
> >>nodes increases.
> >
> >There's a better solution: decrease the number of nodes by replacing
> >clusters with bigger boxes.  This has an additional 
> advantage of reducing
> >number of hops (and, consequently, latency variance).
> >
> >K.I.S.S. rulez :)
> >
> >--vadim
> 
> Side question:
> 
> At what point do we stop aggregating customers onto a single box? The
> technology exists now to have hundreds if not thousands of 
> customers on a
> signle box, but, Do we want that many?
> 
> -Steve
> 
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>