Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?
David Conrad
drc at virtualized.org
Mon Apr 19 17:40:51 UTC 2010
Bryan,
On Apr 19, 2010, at 10:22 AM, Bryan Fields wrote:
> Here is some unverified calculations I did on the problem of scaling nat.
>
> Right now I'm using 42 translation entries in my nat table. Each entry takes
> up 312 bytes of FIB memory, which is ~12.7 Kib of data in the FIB. Mutiply
> this by 250k users and we have 3,124,237 KiB of FIB entries, or 3.1 GiB. This
> is not running any PtP programs or really hitting the network, I'm just
> browsing the web and typing this email to you.
This is really interesting data. What hardware is this on?
Thanks,
-drc
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