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Re: Weekly Routing Table Report


From: valdis.kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:55:12 -0400

On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:16:59 -0400, "Patrick W. Gilmore" said:
On Jul 20, 2012, at 16:10 , Darius Jahandarie wrote:
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 4:04 PM,  <valdis.kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
So, whatever happened to that whole "the internet will catch fire when
we get to 280K routing table entries" or whatever it was? :)

But what will happen when we have 4294967295 entries?

Nothing.  But when we hit 4294967296....

By that point router vendors will hopefully have moved to 64-bit CPUs.
18446744073709551616 routes will hopefully not happen until after I retire,
so you young whippersnappers will be on your own on that one. ;)

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