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From: Bowman@SCIENCE.UTAH.EDU (Pieter)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Routing table size for FP.
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Date: 5 Jun 89 23:49:28 GMT
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	Greg,

    I suspect you can answer these questions, but if you want to tell
me to look else where that's fine as well.

    I'm addressing this to info-appletalk as well for the question
about large institutions.

    I believe that with a FastPath 2 running KIP the number of entries
available in the routing tables is 64.  What is the number for a
FastPath 4 running either KIP or K-STAR?

    We've currently got a hodge-podge of people running their own KFPS
boxes here and are trying to consolidate the administration under the
guise of connectivity.  However, the University of Utah is large
enough that we'll eat up all 64 entries fast (we've already got
somewhere around 30-40 net numbers).

    What are other large institutions doing to resolve this problem?

    Also, are the routes cached?  Does every bridge have to know about
every other bridge all the time, or can there be more nets than
entries in any one box's routing table?

     Thanks in advance,

Pieter
bowman@science.utah.edu
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