Good intent and somewhat competent

[Michael Dillon]

On Sun, 19 Jan 1997, Jeremiah Kristal wrote:

> If there is some
> magical router out there that can handle 10,000,000 route entries, why
> haven't we heard about it?

http://www.pluris.com is only one of three designs out there. And at least
one of these will be available soon.

> Maybe Cisco isn't lying to us all, maybe aggregation is a good idea no
> matter what hardware the backbones are using.

Besides, changing the global routing paradigm is something that should be
done first in a research environment so we can have some proof that it
has a chance of succeeding in the real world.

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