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From: fedor@PATTON.NYSER.NET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.proteon
Subject: Re:  Humongous RIP exchanges
Message-ID: <8901140022.AA00418@patton.nyser.net>
Date: 14 Jan 89 00:22:34 GMT
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	Kent,

	This is an old story, but.....  While doing gated development
	back at cornell,  I noticed routes mysteriously oscillating.
	Routes were even being deleted every now and then.

	It took many "netstat -r -n | grep <network>", gated logs,
	"t 2's" on the proteon, and a bunch of windows on my 3B2 (gag here)
	to figure out that our VAX 750 gateways (yes, gag again) were
	dropping RIP packets off the end of the receive buffer queue.

	This was back at 100-150 networks.  The p4200's kept up fine.
	The Vaxen couldn't process the RIP packets fast enough.  I just
	increased the receive buffer size, but that was only delaying the
	inevitable.

	I'm sure that the cisco's and proteons have a limit also....

	Who would have ever thought that we would be RIPping 350+ networks
	around.  Sounds like a real-life Stephen King Horror......

	Cheers,

	Mark