[31411] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: exponential route prefix growth, was: Re: The Cidr Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vijay Gill)
Fri Sep 22 16:25:06 2000
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 16:21:43 -0400
From: Vijay Gill <vijay@umbc.edu>
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Jared Mauch wrote:
> My primary concern is that the current growth is going to
> outscale the medium sized providers as the one vendor that
> the above output came from doesn't appear to be providing enough memory
> in their equipment, or have enough memory options available.
Fortunately, the large ISPs will act as the mine canary for this
particular problem. Memory will go up as the big boys start to use their
leverage with the vendors. I did some internal presentations on this
particular topic at a particularly large ISP.
> What would be nice is if someone were to put together an
> auto-nagger similar to the "your dns server is lame" of the old days
> messages. Back when the network tables were about 40-45k, I would read
> the output of "sh ip b" and send messages to people asking them to
> aggregate, but those days are over... (at least for me..)
The CIDR report does a fairly good job at this.
/vijay
