[151194] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Tue Mar 13 13:29:00 2012
In-Reply-To: <20120313134805.GA41217@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:27:13 -0400
To: NANOG Mailing List <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> wrote:
> I'm hard pressed in my head to rationalize how maintaining software for
> the next 50 years on a few billion or so boxes is cheaper in the global
> sense than adding memory to perhaps half a million routers.
For a one-order of magnitude increase in "routes," (upper bound of
$30B/year the BGP way) it may or may not be. For a four orders
increase ($30T/year) it's self-evidently cheaper to change software on
the billion or so boxes. How many "routes" would a system improvement
that radically reduced the cost per route add?
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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