IPv6 BGP table size comparisons

Tue Dec 21 22:51:02 UTC 2010

Not sure what route-server you are speaking of, but a quick peek at what we send on a customer session I see:

NTT (2914) sends 3868 prefixes.

If the route server contacts me in private, we can likely set up a view from 2914 or 2914-customer perspective.

- Jared

On Dec 21, 2010, at 5:18 PM, Frank Bulk wrote:

> There are 4,035 routes in the global IPv6 routing table.  This is what one
> provider passed on to me for routes (/48 or larger prefixes), extracted from
> public route-view servers.
> 	AT&T AS7018: 2,851 (70.7%)
> 	Cogent AS174: 2,864 (71.0%)
> 	GLBX AS3549: 3,706 (91.8%)
> 	Hurricane Electric AS6939: 3,790 (93.9%)
> 	Qwest AS209: 3,918 (97.1%)
> 	TINET (formerly Tiscali) AS3257: 3,825 (94.8%)
> 	Verizon AS701: 3,938 (97.6%)
> 
> Frank
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bryan Fields [mailto:Bryan at bryanfields.net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 12:56 PM
> To: NANOG list
> Subject: Re: IPv6 BGP table size comparisons
> 
> On 12/21/2010 11:32, Frank Bulk wrote:
>> A week or more ago someone posted in NANOG or elsewhere a site that had
> made
>> a comparison of the IPv6 BGP table sizes of different operators (i.e. HE,
>> Cogent, Sprint, etc), making the point that a full view might take
> multiple
>> feeds.  I think that website also had text files with the comparisons.
> 
> Whip yours out and lets have an on list comparison of table sizes
> 
> :-D
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