Hey, anyone who wanna help improve the net stability?

Thu Sep 5 22:49:40 UTC 1996

> On Thursday, September 05, 1996 9:52 AM, bmanning at isi.edu wrote:
> @ > Of the class cs from the swamp how many are now being routed at the
> @ > defaultless core?  HOW MANY ADDITIONAL CLASS Cs FROM THE SWAMP ARE THERE
> @ > FOR WHICH THE OWNERS COULD DEMAND ROUTING?
> @ > 
> @ > In other words are these 5,000 new class c's just the beginning? Or are
> @ > they, hopefully the end?
> @ 
> @ Lets see, what the BOE math tell us...
> @ 
> @ 24,000 entries now,
> @ 192.0.0.0/8 is ~2million.
> @ 
> @ ~2mil - 24,000 = current router death.
> @ 
> @ -- 
> @ --bill

Wait, 192/8 contains 2^(16-8=8) = 256 /16s.
Each /16 contains 2^(24-16=8) = 256 /24s.
256 * 256 = 65536 (give or take a few which "mean something" special).
65536-24000=41536.

Not pretty, but not definitively router death.

> Is now when we say..."we told you so..."....???

Who told who what?

> You are seeing the great allocation policies and procedures at work...

So are you of the "one-route-per-provider, but only 10-20 provider"
school of thought?

> fortunately, there will be other address spaces and the IPv4 space
> can be wrapped up as one TWD...
> 
> --
> Jim Fleming

Avi