/25's prefixes announced into global routing table?

Sat Jun 22 05:45:21 UTC 2013

On Jun 22, 2013, at 7:19 AM, Brandon Martin <lists.nanog at monmotha.net> wrote:

> On 06/22/2013 12:44 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:
>>>> 	The forwarding hardware is generally going to be the limit, and
>>>> that's going to be painful enough as we approach a half million
>>>> prefixes.
>>> 
>>> True. And that's why we must avoid IPv6.
>> 
>> This is not only wrong, it makes no sense whatsoever.
>> 
> 
> 
> So here's a question: has anyone done any musings/reasearch on how big of a global IPv6 table we could expect given current policies if IPv6 were as widely deployed and used as IPv4 (or if IPv4 didn't exist)?
> -- 
> Brandon Martin

Yes… It will probably settle out somewhere around 100-125K routes.

Owen