Hey, anyone who wanna help improve the net stability?

Thu Sep 5 18:14:19 UTC 1996

Hi Paul,

you comment leaves me confused.  25,000 24s up 20% in the last six months
means 5,000 NEW prefix 24s in the global routing tables.  Where did they
come from?  I ask because I had thought that it was just about impossible
to get a 24 routed at the nets defaultless core. And that this
impossibility has been around for at least the last 6 months.

I thought that if "cooknet" as a new MCI customer has a 24 handed to it by
mci all nice and cidrized that "cooknet's" 24 would never appear in your
list being aggregated by mci along with other 24s to make a smaller prefix
that would be announced eventually in the global tables?  Have I
misunderstood something or is theory diverging from practice.

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On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, Paul A Vixie wrote:

> > Without pointing fingers, there are some 9K prefixes that could be 
> > removed by proper aggregation/reconfiguration.
> 
> There are also 25,000 /24's, up 20% from six months ago.  I don't
> have any figures on how many are in the "swamp", but I think this
> is the most fruitful place to try to cap growth or hack it back:
> 
> Total routes: 39670
> 
>  8    22   0.1%
>  9     1   0.0%
> 10     4   0.0%
> 11     6   0.0%
> 12    14   0.0%
> 13    30   0.1%
> 14   102   0.3%
> 15   173   0.4%
> 16  5687  14.3%
> 17   246   0.6%
> 18   493   1.2%
> 19   921   2.3%
> 20   954   2.4%
> 21  1200   3.0%
> 22  1824   4.6%
> 23  2425   6.1%
> 24 25539  64.4%
> ...
> 