On 12/12/11 12:55 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
So I'm not really feeling very sympathetic to someone who's attempting to run a full DFZ on a 500k prefix box: either they haven't done their projections properly (in which case they need to consider a different career), or else they bought the box years ago, and it's been depreciated off their books. If you're using equipment that you many years ago, you shouldn't expect it to last forever, particularly if it has hard resource limits - e.g. forwarding table size.
This is simply how hardware forwarding engines work. We're no longer able to run anything more than tiny networks on 7200s and J series boxes. It just doesn't work that way any more, and hasn't worked like that for years.
I can see a picture of a man in an old carriage, complaining about building the highways (that a carriage simply cannot use). So you are effectively saying, that we are constraining the IPv6 address distribution because of "man in a carriage"? Jan