On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> wrote:

We're not going to run out, there is no such thing. There is only pain level to rise, it's not going to stop working. I'm sure there are vendors who'd happily sell you devices in a few years that'll do 10M routes in FIB if they thought there was market demand.

Then ALL the routers in the backbone MUST be changed... is this a real alternative?

Just for a bad decision?

What about speed of convergence of there will be so many routes?

Handling the limits of routes allowed today in first class backbone needs already long time, is n't it?

Thanks,

Géza