Scalability issues in the Internet routing system

Tue Oct 25 16:28:05 UTC 2005

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Blaine Christian wrote:

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> > As of the last time that I looked at it (admittedly quite awhile
> > ago), something like 80% of the forwarding table had at least one
> > hit per minute.  This may well have changed given the number of
> > traffic engineering prefixes that are circulating.
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> > Tony
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> Yea, but that's just me pinging everything and google and yahoo
> fighting over who has the most complete list of x rated sites.

and this probably depends greatly on the network, user-population,
business involved. Is it even a metric worth tracking?