[85713] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: And Now for Something Completely Different (was Re: IPv6 news)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Butterworth)
Sun Oct 16 08:07:08 2005
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 13:06:35 +0100 (BST)
From: Brandon Butterworth <brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> Think in the future, do we really want routers that'll handle millions of
> prefixes and hundreds of thousands of AS numbers, just because people want
> resiliance?
Something will have to provide it and I don't want it to be each of my
hosts. I'd rather the hundreds of hosts handle payload and a few proper
network devices handle where to move it
> If this can be solved on the end-user layer instead, it's more
> scalable.
Sadly most end users will have no idea and cause more trouble
that it's worth if hosts do it
brandon
