[171373] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Cidr Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoff Huston)
Sun Apr 27 22:33:18 2014
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From: Geoff Huston <gih@apnic.net>
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Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 12:33:05 +1000
To: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 27 Apr 2014, at 5:19 am, Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net> wrote:
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>>> Historic event - 500K prefixes on the Internet.
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>> And now we wait for everything to fall over at 512k ;)
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> Based on a quick plot graph on the CIDR report, it looks like we are =
adding 6,000 prefixes a month, or thereabouts. So platforms that break =
at 512K die in two months or less? Sup720s may need to be =
reconfigured/rebooted, etc.
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> Does anyone have doomsday plots of IPv6 prefixes? We are already at =
something like 20,000 prefixes there, and a surprising number of =
deaggregates (like /64s) in the global table. IIRC, a bunch of platforms =
will fall over at 128K/256K IPv6 prefixes (but sooner, really, because =
of IPv4 dual stack).
> =0D> =0D> =0D
Check out pages 30 and 34 of =
http://www.potaroo.net/presentations/2014-02-09-bgp2013.pdf - a =
presentation I gave on predictions of BGP table size at NANOG 60 in =
February of this year.
Geoff
