[82184] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexei Roudnev)
Fri Jul 8 16:12:49 2005
From: "Alexei Roudnev" <alex@relcom.net>
To: "Randy Bush" <randy@psg.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 01:11:52 -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
What is CPU power of today's core routers? What's memory? Compare with
junk-yard server - 2 x 1.4Ggz CPU, 4 GB RAM, total price about $1.5K.
Routers have 3 - 10 times reserve _today_ . Then, you can always sacrify
reaction time a little. Reserves are tremendous in this area.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Randy Bush" <randy@psg.com>
To: "Alexei Roudnev" <alex@relcom.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 1:23 PM
Subject: Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008
> > 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
>
> 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?
>
> randy
>
