Re: FIB Sizing

[Nikolay Shopik <shopik () inblock ru>]

When de aggregation hit IPv6, with lot of /48

> On 25 июля 2015 г., at 14:28, Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > On 22 July 2015 at 06:51, William Herrin <bill () herrin us> wrote:
> >
> > The IPv4 BGP table has been growing by 10% to 15% per year since CIDR.
> > It appears to be a compounding curve, not linear.
> >
> > IPv4 exhaustion is a new factor which may or may not impact the next
> > 24 months' projection. There are arguments favoring a slower rate (no
> > more free pool). There are arguments favoring a faster rate
> > (fragmentation from address sales). No one has a crystal ball good
> > enough to know for sure -- the situation is literally unprecedented.
>
> When will router vendors learn to do even simple aggregation before loading
> routes into FIB? It appears that most hardware will have plenty of FIB
> space if this was done. Also that aggregated routes are increasing at a
> slower pace.
>
> Regards,
>
> Baldur