Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary

Tue Mar 13 19:20:23 UTC 2012

It's _WAY_ more than a billion boxes at this point.

Owen

On Mar 13, 2012, at 10:27 AM, William Herrin wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Leo Bicknell <bicknell at ufp.org> wrote:
>> I'm hard pressed in my head to rationalize how maintaining software for
>> the next 50 years on a few billion or so boxes is cheaper in the global
>> sense than adding memory to perhaps half a million routers.
> 
> For a one-order of magnitude increase in "routes," (upper bound of
> $30B/year the BGP way) it may or may not be. For a four orders
> increase ($30T/year) it's self-evidently cheaper to change software on
> the billion or so boxes. How many "routes" would a system improvement
> that radically reduced the cost per route add?
> 
> Regards,
> Bill Herrin
> 
> 
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