Re: scope of solution..

[Bora Akyol <akyol@pluris.com>]

Bill,


At billions of prefixes, the routers will not be able to do the lookup in
a reasonable time anyway so your packets will get there sometime in the
next century.

How many unique prefixes do we expect to see in the Internet
with IPv6? I thought one of the reasons why IPv6 addresses were designed
the way they are was for ease of aggregation. If it turns out that IPv6
causes the amount of unique prefixes in the forwarding (not routing)
tables to blow up to multiple millions or billions then we are in trouble.

Bora




On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:

> > Coming back to my initial statement, I have seen routers handle upwards of
> > 500,000 prefixes with rich PATH attributes already, and as
> > implementations get more efficient (and distributed) I believe BGP can be
> > made to scale (depending on the router hw that you choose to buy).
>
> How long does this 500000 entry routing table take to converge after
> something major flaps?
>
>Will this approach allow every small business and every household to
> be multihomed, scaling to billions of prefixes?
>
> 					- Bill
>