[151202] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Tue Mar 13 15:24:23 2012
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAP-guGWmOD_1yDgBQazjj0pwj20+-+4KxG=QWaNKp+FC8RCDJA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:20:23 -0700
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Cc: NANOG Mailing List <nanog@nanog.org>
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It's _WAY_ more than a billion boxes at this point.
Owen
On Mar 13, 2012, at 10:27 AM, William Herrin wrote:
> 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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