[99910] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How Not to Multihome
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin M. Streiner)
Mon Oct 8 20:54:52 2007
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 20:48:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
To: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <OF5157741C.D56C2E35-ON8525736E.007F48CD-8525736E.007FA3B7@sungard.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Keegan.Holley@sungard.com wrote:
> please elaborate. My knowledge of IPv6 is admittedly lacking, but I
> always assumed that the routing tables would be much larger if the
> internet were to convert from IPv4 due to the sheer number of networks
> available.
Not many networks are pushing IPv6 at this point, or more correctly, not
many relative to the 230k+ routes that currently makes up a full IPv4
routing table. There likely won't be a mass flash-cut to IPv6, which is
a subject that has been debated to death and back again here on NANOG
over the last few weeks :)
jms
