[82170] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Fri Jul 8 16:10:13 2005
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 09:13:38 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: Alexei Roudnev <alex@relcom.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <17101.36647.943122.577372@roam.psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Randy Bush wrote:
>>Is it a pproblem keeping 500,000 routess in core routers? Of
>>course, it is not (it was in 1996, but it is not in 2005
>>
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>really? we have not seen this so how do you know? and it
>will be fine with churn and pushing 300k forwarding entries
>into the fibs on a well-known vendor's line cards?
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>
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Soon the fib can be replaced by just an array with an index for every
IPv4 address. With <255 interfaces, 4G is sufficient .-)
Pete
