There are many companies now in the "route control" field such as Route Science, Netvmg, Proficient Networks and many others. A recent one I spotted is Radware: http://www.radware.com/archive/pdfs/whitepapers/PeerDirectorTech.pdf See page 5: "Some peers are still overloaded, configure smaller CIDRs". Are we about to see a growth in the routing table size after seeing a slowing down in 2001: http://www.telstra.net/ops/bgp/bgp-active.html ? -Hank