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Re: [Idr] why has 4096 bytes limit on BGP messages size?

Danny McPherson <danny@tcb.net> Thu, 14 June 2007 22:40 UTC

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From: Danny McPherson <danny@tcb.net>
Subject: Re: [Idr] why has 4096 bytes limit on BGP messages size?
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:40:31 -0600
To: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
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On Jun 14, 2007, at 9:59 AM, Pekka Savola wrote:
>
> (The header fields already tell the length of the message, so  
> allocating 4K buffer for each BGP message (when most messages are  
> much smaller than 4K) is probably a waste in many cases.)

Pekka,
Do you have some references to data supporting your comment here
regarding most messages being smaller than 4K?

-danny


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