Weekly Routing Table Report
Masataka Ohta
mohta at necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp
Sat Aug 31 09:51:16 UTC 2019
Owen DeLong wrote:
> Consider, for example AS7922
COMCAST is not a good example.
> but, rather organic customer growth and RIR applications over time.
No, if you know theory and practice of how additional address ranges
are allocated as a result of growth, you could have noticed that the
large number of prefixes of COMCAST should mostly be a result of
mergers, where merged parts won't renumber their hosts.
> That’s the kind of prefix growth we should be able to mostly avoid in
> IPv6 that is rather rampant in IPv4.
Without automatic renumbering, IPv6 is of no help against mergers.
> Sure, but the number of multi homed sites is way _WAY_ less than the
> IPv4 routing table size.
The following page by Geoff Huston is better than your delusion.
http://www.potaroo.net/ispcolumn/2001-03-bgp.html
What is driving this recent change to exponential growth
of the routing table?
In a word, multi-homing.
>> With the current routing practice, the number will increase to 14M
>> with IPv4 and a lot more than that with IPv6.
>
> I’m curious as to why you think that the number is bounded at 14M for
> IPv4 and why you think there will be so many more multi homed sites
> in IPv6?
I don't think I must explain the current routing practice here.
>> The problem is serious especially because Moore's law is ending.
>
> People have been claiming that Moore's law is at an end longer than
> we have been pushing for IPv6 deployment.
I'm afraid you are not very familiar with semiconductor technology
trend.
Masataka Ohta
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