[163970] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: /25's prefixes announced into global routing table?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Martin)
Sat Jun 22 01:20:29 2013
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 01:19:49 -0400
From: Brandon Martin <lists.nanog@monmotha.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <5FE82F90-900F-4CAA-8704-70E30D7E50D2@delong.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 06/22/2013 12:44 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:
>>> The forwarding hardware is generally going to be the limit, and
>>> that's going to be painful enough as we approach a half million
>>> prefixes.
>>
>> True. And that's why we must avoid IPv6.
>
> This is not only wrong, it makes no sense whatsoever.
>
So here's a question: has anyone done any musings/reasearch on how big
of a global IPv6 table we could expect given current policies if IPv6
were as widely deployed and used as IPv4 (or if IPv4 didn't exist)?
--
Brandon Martin
