Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

["Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve () telecomplete co uk>]

intel systems can do this.

forget the talk of juniper t320s in the core.. you are talking about the problem 
caused by multihoming and multihoming prefixes are not originated typically by 
such large and expensive routers but by small cheap systems at the edge.

Steve

On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, Alexei Roudnev wrote:

> It's chiken and egg problem. They do not have 4 Gb, because they do not need
> it_now_. techbnically it is not a problem even today.
> Small RAID systems have 1 Gb RAM easily.
>
> Line cards do not need so much memory - they can always cache routing
> tables. Just again - it is not _technical_ problem.
> IPv6 addressed problem which do note exists in reality.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow () mci com>
> To: "Alexei Roudnev" <alex () relcom net>
> Cc: "NANOG" <nanog () merit edu>; "Brad Knowles" <brad () stop mail-abuse org>
> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 11:12 PM
> Subject: Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008
>
>
> > randy already asked for a kibosh on the lunacy here... I agree, it'd be
> > nice, but...
> >
> > On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Alexei Roudnev wrote:
> >
> > > You do not need to - any router have only `1 - 10% of all routing table
> > > active, and it is always possible to optimize these alghoritms.
> >
> > and routing vendor's haven't already done some optomizing you think?
> >
> > > On the other hand - what's wrong with 4Gb on line card in big core
> router?
> > oh, please please name the router vendor that has 4gb of 'ram'
> > (tcam/fpga/asic-'memory') on the 'linecard'. Oh, can't come up with one?
> > One wonders why that is? If the solution were as simple as: "Joe, add
> > 1.21jigawatts of memory to the linecard so we can support +1M routes"
> > Don't you think the vendor would have done this to get people to stop
> > bitching at them?
> >
> > > It's cheap enough, even today. And we have not 1,000,000 routes yet.
> >
> > In YOUR network you don't... I'd venture to guess there are quite a few
> > very large networks with +1M routes in them today.
> >
> > remember though, I'm the chemical engineer... and I was trained to MAKE
> > the crack cocaine...