multi-homing fixes

Fri Aug 24 22:18:29 UTC 2001

On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 03:11:39PM -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
> please look at slides 11 and 15 of
> 
>     <http://psg.com/~randy/010809.ptomaine.pdf>
> 
> the /24s of small multihomers is half the routing table (see geoff's data)
> and is growing radially (if you are silly enough not to filter that stuff).

Does anyone have a graph of the number of allocated AS numbers? I
ask because in a perfect world each AS would originate 1 prefix
only, as they got enough address space in their first alloaction
to service them forever.  In that case growth of the AS table would
be the growth of the routing table.

The real world would never work like that of course, but it is an
absolute lower bound on the table size, I think.  I do believe we
can get much closer to this world with address space sizes like
those available in IPv6, however it's not clear to me that people
are really trying to think that way.

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