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Re: /25's prefixes announced into global routing table?


From: Brandon Martin <lists.nanog () monmotha net>
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 01:19:49 -0400

On 06/22/2013 12:44 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:
        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.

True. And that's why we must avoid IPv6.

This is not only wrong, it makes no sense whatsoever.



So here's a question: has anyone done any musings/reasearch on how big of a global IPv6 table we could expect given current policies if IPv6 were as widely deployed and used as IPv4 (or if IPv4 didn't exist)?
--
Brandon Martin


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