[125542] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Mon Apr 19 13:42:11 2010
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <4BCC9157.9040507@bryanfields.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:40:51 -0700
To: Bryan Fields <Bryan@bryanfields.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Bryan,
On Apr 19, 2010, at 10:22 AM, Bryan Fields wrote:
> Here is some unverified calculations I did on the problem of scaling =
nat.
>=20
> Right now I'm using 42 translation entries in my nat table. Each =
entry takes
> up 312 bytes of FIB memory, which is ~12.7 Kib of data in the FIB. =
Mutiply
> this by 250k users and we have 3,124,237 KiB of FIB entries, or 3.1 =
GiB. This
> is not running any PtP programs or really hitting the network, I'm =
just
> browsing the web and typing this email to you.
This is really interesting data. What hardware is this on?
Thanks,
-drc
