IPv6 BGP table size comparisons

Fri Dec 24 17:55:12 UTC 2010

-----Original Message-----
From: Seth Mattinen [mailto:sethm at rollernet.us] 
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 8:37 PM
To: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: IPv6 BGP table size comparisons

On 12/21/10 2:18 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%)

Sprint (AS1239) is sending 3,779 routes.

XO Communications (AS2828) is sending 3973 prefixes.