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Re: IPv6 Advertisements

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Tue May 29 21:19:09 2007

Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 18:17:17 -0700
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: bmanning@karoshi.com
Cc: Brandon Butterworth <brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20070530003743.GA503@vacation.karoshi.com.>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


bmanning@karoshi.com wrote:
> On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 06:14:51PM +0100, Brandon Butterworth wrote:
>> You get one shot at fixed prefix size filters, miss and you'll pay
>> forever. Which is more scarce, /32's or routing table entries.
> 
> 	your first lema is false.
> 	and RTE are more scarce.
> 
>> brandon
> 
> 	let me ask you two questions:
> 		... how many /32's are there?  

The same number as there are /32s in ipv4, also the same number as there
are AS numbers which has a certain nice congruency to it...

> 		... how many of them will you allow in your routing table?

Hopefully not all of them by tomorrow.

> 	and a bonus question:
> 		... what are your criteria for rejecting a given /32?
> 
> --bill
> 


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