Bad routes update
Perry E. Metzger
perry@piermont.com
22 Jul 1999 09:43:41 -0400
Magnus Ahltorp <map@stacken.kth.se> writes:
> > > Do you really think that there are only 80000 sites that want to be
> > > multi-homed?
> >
> > Right now, there don't seem to be any real restrictions on the
> > practice in v4 land other than taste, and yet, we aren't overwhelmed
> > yet. I suspect that the desire will not expand faster than Moore's
> > Law.
>
> Does Moore's Law increase the number of available AS numbers also?
No, but we can deploy a new external gateway protocol with a 32 or 64
bit AS space far more easily than we can deploy a new version of
IP. I've seen external routing protocols come and go over the the
years...
Perry