[184442] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AW: /27 the new /24
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Baldur Norddahl)
Sat Oct 3 09:18:16 2015
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Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 15:18:12 +0200
From: Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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Except we might very well reach 1+ million routes soon without accepting
longer prefixes than /24. Also route updates is a concern - do I really
need to be informed every time someone on the other end of the world resets
a link?
On 3 October 2015 at 12:57, William Waites <wwaites@tardis.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 12:42:01 +0200, Baldur Norddahl <
> baldur.norddahl@gmail.com> said:
>
> > 2 million routes will not be enough if we go full /27. This is
> > not a scalable solution. Something else is needed to provide
> > multihoming for small networks (LISP?).
>
> It's not too far off though. One way of looking at it is, for each
> extra bit we allow, we potentially double the table size. So with 500k
> routes and a /24 limit now, we might expect 4 million with /27. Not
> exactly because it depends strongly on the distribution of prefix
> lengths, but probably not a bad guess.
>
> Also there are optimisations that I wonder if the vendors are doing to
> preserve TCAM such as aggregating adjacent networks with the same next
> hop into the supernet. That would mitigate the impact of wanton
> deaggregation at least and the algorithm doesn't look too hard. Do the
> big iron vendors do this?
>
> -w
>
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