[24691] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Cidr Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vijay Gill)
Mon Aug 2 09:34:44 1999
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 09:32:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Vijay Gill <wrath@cs.umbc.edu>
To: Peter Galbavy <Peter.Galbavy@knowledge.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, eof-list@ripe.net, apops@apnic.net,
routing-wg@ripe.net
In-Reply-To: <19990802090339.C2804@office.knowledge.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Peter Galbavy wrote:
> > 300799 61912
>
> Erm, I know I posted about this a while back, but I think this is
> potentially an important one. I haven't got a graphical browser just
> now - so I cannot look at the graphs online - so this may be all
> complete speculation, but can someone please extrapolate when we
> will hit 2^16 routes in the general world ? Subtract a few week
> window for local routes to push people over the 2^16 number and
> then can we sit back and wonder how many routers / vendors / software
> implementations will have some bug at that number ?
Several promising local ISP's have local routing tables bigger than 2^16.
In fact, I suspect all the usual suspects are pushing more. I don't think
this is a major problem.
/vijay
