please elaborate.  My knowledge of IPv6 is admittedly lacking, but I always assumed that the routing tables would be much larger if the internet were to convert from IPv4 due to the sheer number of networks available.




Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
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10/08/2007 06:49 PM

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Re: How Not to Multihome






Keegan.Holley@sungard.com wrote:
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> I'm really interested to see what happens when we start filling those
> same routers with ipv6 routes.

All 970 of them?

joelja

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>> It's not 'law' per se, but having the customer originate their own
>> announcements is definitely the Right Way to go.
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> it is interesting, and worrysome, to consider this in light of likely
> growth in the routing table (ref ipv4 free pool run out discussion) and
> vendors' inability to handle large ribs and fibs on enterprise class
> routers.
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> randy
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