Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

Sun Sep 11 18:47:47 UTC 2005

On 11-sep-2005, at 20:34, Brandon Butterworth wrote:

>> 1. Give us a maximum number of multihomers.

> 4 Million

So how do you know it's 4 million and not 4.1?

>> 2. Tell us how a routing table of that size (assuming 1 route per AS)
>> will scale based on reasonable extrapolations of today's technology.

> SUP720-3BXL says 1M (500K v6) now, doesn't seem too much of a stretch
> to 4M over many years

We know that 125k works today (I'm being a bit conservative because  
in IPv6 the addresses are longer) so the storage requirements should  
sort themselves out according to Moore in 7 x 1.5 years, so that  
would work in 2013. Processing scales non-linearly, though.