Re: [RRG] Re: Fast and sparse mapping?

[Scott Brim <swb@employees.org>]

On 9/18/08 5:33 PM, Brian E Carpenter allegedly wrote:
>> Do you really mean that?  Are you really suggesting that we engineer routing
>> for 2^48 prefixes?  
> 
> No. I still believe that the natural limit is somewhere around 10 million
> PI prefixes, or just conceivably 100 million, so my target range is
> 2^23 to 2^27.

How is this a 'natural limit'?  Could you review how you got there?  My
totally casual estimate is that 2^27 is reasonable but that we had
better engineer for 2^30.


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