Re: [RRG] Consensus? IPv4 scaling problem must be solved directly, not by relying on migration to IPv6

[Lixia Zhang <lixia@CS.UCLA.EDU>]

On May 27, 2008, at 2:55 AM, Pekka Savola wrote:

> On Tue, 27 May 2008, Lixia Zhang wrote:
> > As I've heard from a few big operators, their shared issue is the  
> > scale limitation of their edge boxes --- they could buy a small  
> > number of core routers that can handle large tables, but they could  
> > not afford replacing hundreds or even up to thousands edge routers  
> > that have limited capacity.
>
> I have to wonder which edge boxes we're thinking of.  Edges towards  
> other ISPs (peering etc.)?  Edges towards customers?  The latter in  
> some cases might be easier -- it may not be required to carry the  
> full routing table on each and every customer-facing router.

I might have used a wrong word "edge"; someone closer to operations  
might help here.  But the stories I heard are about the ISP routers  
that do carry the full table.

Lixia

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