[98979] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "2M today, 10M with no change in technology"? An informal survey.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Mon Aug 27 19:14:28 2007
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From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:12:42 -0700
To: deepak@ai.net
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On Aug 27, 2007, at 2:49 PM, Deepak Jain wrote:
> According to this link, which alleges to be from cisco-nsp, an
> MSFC2 can hold 256,000 entries in its FIB of which 12,000 are
> reserved for Multicast. I do not know if the 12,000 can be set to
> serve the general purpose.
>
> The MSFC2 therefore can server 244,000 routes without uRPF turned on.
>
> Any reasonably valid way of predicting when we'll hit 244,000
> routes in the default-free zone?
Um?
Real Soon Now?
According to http://www.cidr-report.org/as2.0/ we're at 233,000
routes (as seen from AS 2.0 now) and the rate of growth as seen from
http://bgp.potaroo.net/ seems pretty steep.
I must be missing something obvious (or should I be dusting off my
unused Y2K survival gear?)
Thanks,
-drc
