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From: JNC@MIT-XX.ARPA ("J. Noel Chiappa")
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Subject: Space wars
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Date: Wed, 4-Dec-85 01:26:59 EST
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	Actually, I'm a little bit puzzled by this space issue. In the
CGW, a route takes up 14 bytes while an EGP neighbour takes up about
50. Admittedly, some of the fields in the EGP block aren't use
simultaneously, and could be overlapped, but it's still not small.
What I find curious is that the core gateways will apparently happily
take many neighbours, but don't have room for routing entries. Why are
the routing entries in the BBN gateways so large? Can someone from
BBN explain what's going on here?

	Noel
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