[rbridge] (no subject)

[Anoop Ghanwani]

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> From: Russ White [mailto:riw at cisco.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 9:59 PM
> To: Anoop Ghanwani
> Cc: Dinesh G Dutt; Eric Gray; Developing a hybrid router/bridge.
> Subject: Re: [rbridge] (no subject)
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> > Control plane scaling issues are a big concern for bridges.  It is 
> > also a concern for routers until you get into the class of 
> really big 
> > routers that do things like hold the entire routing table.
> 
> Not really.... In real life, all routers suffer from scaling 
> issues, no matter what their processors look like. Massively 
> parallel links are one thing any good routing book will tell 
> you to avoid like the plague.

The point is most bridges don't have scaling issues like
that.  If we're going to build a technology that costs
as much as routers and has the same (if not even worse
scaling properties), why would people want to deploy it?  

Anoop