OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

Fri Jul 8 08:15:40 UTC 2005

> What is CPU power of today's core routers? What's memory? Compare with
> junk-yard server - 2 x 1.4Ggz CPU, 4 GB RAM, total price about $1.5K.
> 
> Routers have 3 - 10 times reserve _today_ . Then, you can always sacrify
> reaction time a little. Reserves are tremendous in this area.
> 
>>> 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
>>
>> 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?

clue: some large isps have routers falling over today due to
      ram limitations on line cards.  and it will cost a LOT
      of money for them to do upgrades which will last not
      long enough.

as this is an ops list, can we try to stay somewhere in the
neighborhood of operational realities?

randy