Re: When will 128M not be enough?

["Marshall Eubanks" <tme () 21rst-century com>]

> up () 3 am schrieb:
>
> > It looks like some recent aggregation has been helping to slow down the
> > growth.

Yes, us http://www.multicasttech.com/status/index.html
(at ~ 102k),
Telstra http://www.telstra.net/ops/bgp/index.html
(at ~ 105k) and
KPNQwest http://www.mcvax.org/~jhma/routing/bgp-hist.html
(at ~ 103k) 

have had flat numbers of suffixes since about mid-June.
IMHO it's way too soon to tell if this is really a new trend.

Regards
Marshall Eubanks


> If you look at some figures (e.g.
> http://www.employees.org/~tbates/cidr-report.html) it's even pretty stable

> around 101K prefixes.
>
> 128M should do if you only have two or three upstreams, soft reconfiguration

> disabled and almost nothing else enabled. Does anyone have experience with

> zebra/mrt/... as a route server?. I need one and would like to you for the

> cheap server based solution instead of having to buy a fully fledged router.

> TIA
>
> -- Arnold