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Re: Smaller than a /24 for BGP?


From: William Herrin <bill () herrin us>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2023 11:17:15 -0800

On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 11:04 AM Jon Lewis <jlewis () lewis org> wrote:
The "other problem" is, every day more gear receiving full routes gets
closer to (or farther past) the point where the resources to hold either
the FIB or RIB just aren't there.  For those using these devices, lowering
the bar and bringing in another 100k or so routes in short order just
isn't an option.

Yeah, but in another couple years we'll breach the 1M mark and
everybody will have fresh routers with lots of TCAM for a while. If
that were the only issue, it'd be a matter of timing the change well.

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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