OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

Petri Helenius pete at he.iki.fi
Fri Jul 8 06:13:38 UTC 2005


Randy Bush wrote:

>>Is it a pproblem keeping 500,000 routess in core routers? Of
>>course, it is not (it was in 1996, but it is not in 2005
>>    
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>
>really?  we have not seen this so how do you know?  and it
>will be fine with churn and pushing 300k forwarding entries
>into the fibs on a well-known vendor's line cards?
>
>  
>
Soon the fib can be replaced by just an array with an index for every 
IPv4 address. With <255 interfaces, 4G is sufficient .-)

Pete





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