On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 11:03:52AM -0400, Thomas Narten wrote:
Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> writes:
Today we think of a 5,000,000 prefix Internet as an impossibility. No hardware could ever do that. However, 20 years on I'm not sure a 5 million route Internet will be surprising to anyone.
Who is the "we" you refer to above/
Actually, quite a few people are worried that a 5M prefix Internet is a possibility. There are also debates (i.e., no consensus) that when that happens, routers will actually be able to cope with the load in practice.
hum... given that w/ a /32 "boundary" - there exists the possibility of 2x32 routing table entries... clearly the /32 boundary is not to preserve routing table slots. if one is seriously considering a 1-5m entry routing table then it becomes important to (proxy) aggregate to the /8 or /9 level to keep within the 1 to 5m entries. --bill