[297] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CIDR FAQ
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Stratton)
Wed Aug 16 11:03:27 1995
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 10:55:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Nathan Stratton <nathan@netrail.net>
To: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
cc: Tony Li <tli@cisco.com>, peter@demon.net, dsiegel@net99.net,
jon@branch.com, sob@academ.com, bwatson@mci.net, jerry@fc.net,
inet-access@earth.com, HANK@taunivm.tau.ac.il, nanog@merit.edu,
local-ir@ripe.net, iap@vma.cc.nd.edu
In-Reply-To: <9508161431.AA19163@gw.home.vix.com>
On Wed, 16 Aug 1995, Paul A Vixie wrote:
> > BTW - I have not studied the RFC's - so what will IPv6 do for us in
> > the contect of routeing aggregation and latger boxes etc ?
> >
> > Absolutely Nothing. You end up back at hierarchical routing. IPv6
> > gets you a bigger address space, so it actually hurts in that it takes
> > more memory to store a prefix.
> >
> > Tony
>
> the plan is that IPv6 addresses will be allocated hierarchically from day 1,
> and with proxy aggregation it should be possible for sean's stated goal of
> "4 routes in the table on some defaultless networks" to be reached.
>
> the routing table is no longer doubling every nine months. we've been sort
> of hanging out in the 25,000 - 30,000 range for almost six months now.
>
> the largest single component of the table size comes from old allocations of
> class c nets, which are 2/3 the total.
>
Why can' the NIC reallocat the old class c's and use CIDR?
Nathan Stratton CEO, NetRail, Inc. Your Gateway to the World!
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