Weekly Routing Table Report

valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu
Fri Jul 20 20:55:12 UTC 2012


On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:16:59 -0400, "Patrick W. Gilmore" said:
> On Jul 20, 2012, at 16:10 , Darius Jahandarie wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 4:04 PM,  <valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:
> >> So, whatever happened to that whole "the internet will catch fire when
> >> we get to 280K routing table entries" or whatever it was? :)
> >
> > But what will happen when we have 4294967295 entries?
>
> Nothing.  But when we hit 4294967296....

By that point router vendors will hopefully have moved to 64-bit CPUs.
18446744073709551616 routes will hopefully not happen until after I retire,
so you young whippersnappers will be on your own on that one. ;)
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 865 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/attachments/20120720/76bdbbc5/attachment.sig>


More information about the NANOG mailing list