On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 17:03:17 EDT, Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> said:
Looks like UU routes have been steadily falling, dunno if they aggregated (hah!) or just lost customers due to, well, you know. But by the metrics people/reporters have been using to declare UU "half the internet", it looks like they're now #2.
Well.. yeah.. but my hypothetical 64 /8's are twice address space than your hypothetical 2,097,152 /24's. About the only conclusion that you can *safely* draw is that Sprint has a more complicated network than UU does. Now *hopefully*, they have more customers too, or the Sprint backbone engineers will have to carry a much higher complexity/customer ratio, which means when the senior engineers finally snap under the pressure, we'll get junior engineers making weird work-arounds that will just complicate things 5 years down the road. Oh wait.. that already happened at most carriers, didn't it? That's where we got the CURRENT crop of senior engineers.. ;) -- Valdis Kletnieks Computer Systems Senior Engineer Virginia Tech