[6bone] IPv6 routing table size

[JORDI PALET MARTINEZ]

Ok. Then you mean 863 ... the presentation is here http://www.ipv6.net.cn/event/presentation/ipv6-china-report.pdf


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Thomas" <Jeff.Thomas@ind.alcatel.com>
To: "JORDI PALET MARTINEZ" <jordi.palet@consulintel.es>
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 2:45 AM
Subject: Re: [6bone] IPv6 routing table size


> I don't believe it was the Hitachi box.  It presented the ideas for a new "high performance IPv6 router" and
> had some other name like 862 or something like that associated with it.  The presentation is the one from the
> BII CTO from the Beijing Summit.   That still seems like a crazy number.  If it is true, so much for the
> routing scalability of IPv6, huh?  :-)
> 
> JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote:
> 
> > I've seen also this presentation. I'm sure it was 1.000.000, but may be I'm wrong. It was Hitachi GR2000 ?
> >
> > If the performance is good enough, may be we solved the multihoming problem for a while ;-)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Jordi Palet
> > Consulintel
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Michel Py" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>
> > To: "Jeff Thomas" <Jeff.Thomas@ind.alcatel.com>; <6bone@mailman.isi.edu>
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 12:12 AM
> > Subject: RE: [6bone] IPv6 routing table size
> >
> > > > Jeff Thomas wrote:
> > > > was building an IPv6 router with over a million
> > > > entries in their routing table.  Am I off track?
> > >
> > > A _million_ ? whoa. I count 245 entries in the global v6 table now, and
> > > I am not aware of any v6 ISP with more than a few dozen thousand
> > > customers.
> > >
> > > > Large enterprises today may have tens of thousands of routes
> > > > in v4, but using v6 wouldn't they be an order of magnitude
> > > > smaller?
> > >
> > > One million subnets, yes; this would be totally unaggregated though.
> > > Should not be more than 50k-80k routes aggregated.
> > >
> > > I am not sure I would agree with an order of magnitude smaller, but I
> > > think that a v6 routing table should be smaller than the v4 equivalent.
> > > The biggest (v4) routing table I have seen myself is 200k and change.
> > >
> > > Michel.
> > >
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