[7978] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Big Squeeze
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Mon Mar 3 23:49:17 1997
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 23:42:20 -0500
To: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
At 10:30 PM 3/3/97 -0600, Sean Donelan wrote:
>From a single data point on my router, /24's currently account for 64% of
>the routing table entries and for 65% of the flapping prefixes. /16's
>account for 12% of the routing table entries, and 10% of the flapping
>prefixes. It doesn't appear to me there is a significant difference
>between flap behaivor of long prefixes and short prefixes. There are
>more long prefixes than short prefixes. But as a group they both tend
>to flap the same proportion of 2% of the routes within the group.
Sorry, I'm not convinced this is the case. There is not enough
empirical evidence.
- paul
