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Re: And Now for Something Completely Different (was Re: IPv6 news)


From: Brandon Butterworth <brandon () rd bbc co uk>
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 13:06:35 +0100 (BST)


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


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