/25's prefixes announced into global routing table?

Patrick W. Gilmore patrick at ianai.net
Mon Jun 24 14:27:19 UTC 2013


On Jun 22, 2013, at 16:16 , Grzegorz Janoszka <Grzegorz at Janoszka.pl> wrote:
> On 22-06-13 17:30, Owen DeLong wrote:

>> Looking at the number of autonomous systems in the IPv6 routing table and the total number of routes, it looks like it will shake out somewhere in the neighborhood of 3-5 prefixes/ASN. Since there are ~35,000 unique ASNs in the IPv4 table, I figured simple multiplication provided as good an estimate as any at this early time.
> 
> Deaggregating of IPv4 announcements is done for traffic engineering and
> to fight ddoses (just the attacked /24 stops being announced to
> internet). I think some people will just copy their v4 habits into v6
> and then we might have explosion of /48's.
> I wouldn't be so sure about just 3-5 prefixes/ASN.

Not that many people are de-aggregating in anticipation of the DDoS.

Temporary de-agg during DDoS is not relevant to discussions on global table sizes.

-- 
TTFN,
patrick





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