[7980] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Big Squeeze
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Kozowski)
Tue Mar 4 02:41:58 1997
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 23:37:48 -0800 (PST)
From: Eric Kozowski <kozowski@structured.net>
To: SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM, pferguso@cisco.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
>>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.
Is there any empirical evidence to show otherwise? Id' be interested in
seeing it.
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