[163978] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: /25's prefixes announced into global routing table?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Suchy)
Sat Jun 22 09:11:43 2013
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 15:11:30 +0200
From: Daniel Suchy <danny@danysek.cz>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <2F3EBB88EC3A454AAB08915FBF0B8C7E25D9CF@eusaamb109.ericsson.se>
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On 06/22/2013 12:27 AM, Jakob Heitz wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 16:14:07 -0400
>> From: "Majdi S. Abbas" <msa@latt.net>
>> 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.
>
> There are techniques to fix that. For example, Simple Virtual Aggregation
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6769
>
I'm not sure, if hardware vendors will implement something like this. I
expect they'll sell you router with larger hardware FIB instead.
- Daniel
