[44Net] gateway updates - HIGHSPEED HAMNET

[Jeremy McDermond]

On Mar 24, 2010, at 5:23 PM, Kyle Anderson wrote:

> Don, Jeremy,
> As a hypothetical, could you give a rough estimate of the hardware
> requirements for a computer running bgp (still with default routes) if
> I snapped my fingers and most active hams started hamming out packets
> and we all peered with each other? Maybe in the US to start?
> 
> hamdata.com says something like 800k hams, but perhaps half or a
> quarter of that might be reasonable?

The current routing table is around 300k routes, and it the current router memory size required is about 512Mb.  This is a big concern for carriers because memory for a Cisco GSR or a CRS-1 is *VASTLY* more expensive than your typical chunk of PC memory.

And you would consider that not every user would want to run BGP.  Remember that 800k hams each with a route in the table would be larger than the entire Internet routing table is today.

For most ham's purposes, a PC with a couple of gigs of memory would probably do just fine.

> 
> Kyle


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