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Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm () rollernet us>
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 15:39:21 -0800
On 3/10/12 2:47 PM, Sven Olaf Kamphuis wrote:
well... we actually intend to just announce /64's and smaller as well. i don't see the problem with that. just get routers with enough memory... i'm rather for a "specification" of a minimum supported route-size (let's say something along the lines of 64GB in each border router, it's 2012 after all ;) than for putting limits on the prefix sized announced so "old junk" can still stay connected to the internet. let's say, there is 6 billion people in the world.. if they all have 1 route table entry (average ;) i see no technical limitations on anything produced AFTER 2008 actually. stop buying crap without sufficient ram, or just scrap it and get new stuff. (which you're going to have to do to efficiently route ipv6 -anyway- at some point, as your old stuff, simply doesn't even loadbalance trunked ethernet ports properly (layer 3 based) ;)
I'm under the impression from your messages in this thread that you're unaware or unfamiliar with TCAM. ~Seth
Current thread:
- Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary, (continued)
- Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary Owen DeLong (Mar 09)
- Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary Joel jaeggli (Mar 09)
- Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary Randy Bush (Mar 09)
- RE: filtering /48 is going to be necessary George Bonser (Mar 09)
- Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary Joel jaeggli (Mar 09)
- RE: filtering /48 is going to be necessary George Bonser (Mar 09)
- Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary Jimmy Hess (Mar 10)
- Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary Sven Olaf Kamphuis (Mar 10)
- Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary William Herrin (Mar 10)
- Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary Masataka Ohta (Mar 11)
- Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary Seth Mattinen (Mar 10)
- Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary Joel jaeggli (Mar 10)
- Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary Owen DeLong (Mar 10)
- Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary Sven Olaf Kamphuis (Mar 10)
- Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary Jared Mauch (Mar 12)
- Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary Sven Olaf Kamphuis (Mar 10)
- Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary Owen DeLong (Mar 10)
- Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary Jimmy Hess (Mar 09)
- RE: filtering /48 is going to be necessary George Bonser (Mar 09)
- Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary Sascha Lenz (Mar 10)
- Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary Owen DeLong (Mar 09)