[135724] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What's the current state of major access networks in North
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Antonio Querubin)
Fri Jan 28 04:01:43 2011
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:01:37 -1000 (HST)
From: Antonio Querubin <tony@lava.net>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1101280737090.13151@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Cc: carlos@lacnic.net, NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> You do NOT want to keep state for all the devices in the customer residence.
> Your ND table will be enormous.
>
> We already have problems with ARP on our larger residential aggregation
> routers, I don't even want to think about what it'd look like with 10+
> devices in peoples homes in those /64:s, each perhaps using multiple IPs.
> Your ND traffic will be enormous.
I wonder how many ISPs actually have so many IPv6 customers that they
actually have these problems. Or is this mainly a limitation with a
particular vendor's equipment?
Antonio Querubin
e-mail/xmpp: tony@lava.net
