/25's prefixes announced into global routing table?

Daniel Suchy danny at danysek.cz
Sat Jun 22 13:11:30 UTC 2013


On 06/22/2013 12:27 AM, Jakob Heitz wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 16:14:07 -0400
>> From: "Majdi S. Abbas" <msa at latt.net>
>> 	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. 
> 
> There are techniques to fix that. For example, Simple Virtual Aggregation
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6769
> 

I'm not sure, if hardware vendors will implement something like this. I
expect they'll sell you router with larger hardware FIB instead.

- Daniel




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