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Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008


From: Petri Helenius <pete () he iki fi>
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 09:13:38 +0300


Randy Bush wrote:

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 2005

really?  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?

Soon the fib can be replaced by just an array with an index for every IPv4 address. With <255 interfaces, 4G is sufficient .-)

Pete



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