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Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008
From: Randy Bush <randy () psg com>
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 22:15:40 -1000
What is CPU power of today's core routers? What's memory? Compare with junk-yard server - 2 x 1.4Ggz CPU, 4 GB RAM, total price about $1.5K. Routers have 3 - 10 times reserve _today_ . Then, you can always sacrify reaction time a little. Reserves are tremendous in this area.Is it a pproblem keeping 500,000 routess in core routers? Of course, it is not (it was in 1996, but it is not in 2005really? we have not seen this so how do you know? and it will be fine with churn and pushing 300k forwarding entries into the fibs on a well-known vendor's line cards?
clue: some large isps have routers falling over today due to ram limitations on line cards. and it will cost a LOT of money for them to do upgrades which will last not long enough. as this is an ops list, can we try to stay somewhere in the neighborhood of operational realities? randy
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- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008, (continued)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Scott McGrath (Jul 06)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Daniel Golding (Jul 06)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Alexei Roudnev (Jul 06)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 David Conrad (Jul 07)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Alexei Roudnev (Jul 07)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Joe Abley (Jul 07)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 John Payne (Jul 15)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Randy Bush (Jul 07)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Petri Helenius (Jul 07)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Alexei Roudnev (Jul 08)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Randy Bush (Jul 08)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Brad Knowles (Jul 08)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Iljitsch van Beijnum (Jul 07)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Andre Oppermann (Jul 07)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Joe Abley (Jul 07)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Andre Oppermann (Jul 07)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Joe Abley (Jul 07)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Andre Oppermann (Jul 07)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 David Meyer (Jul 07)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Andre Oppermann (Jul 07)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Alexei Roudnev (Jul 08)