The Cidr Report

Mon Apr 28 02:33:05 UTC 2014

On 27 Apr 2014, at 5:19 am, Deepak Jain <deepak at ai.net> wrote:

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>>> Historic event - 500K prefixes on the Internet.
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>> And now we wait for everything to fall over at 512k ;)
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> Based on a quick plot graph on the CIDR report, it looks like we are adding 6,000 prefixes a month, or thereabouts. So platforms that break at 512K die in two months or less?  Sup720s may need to be reconfigured/rebooted, etc.
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> Does anyone have doomsday plots of IPv6 prefixes? We are already at something like 20,000 prefixes there, and a surprising number of deaggregates (like /64s) in the global table. IIRC, a bunch of platforms will fall over at 128K/256K IPv6 prefixes (but sooner, really, because of IPv4 dual stack).
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Check out pages 30 and 34 of http://www.potaroo.net/presentations/2014-02-09-bgp2013.pdf - a presentation I gave on predictions of BGP table size at NANOG 60 in February of this year.

Geoff