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

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Jun 22, 2013, at 7:19 AM, Brandon Martin <lists.nanog () monmotha net> wrote:

> 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

Yes… It will probably settle out somewhere around 100-125K routes.

Owen