> As for routing table size, no router which can handle 10s of Gbps is > at all bothered by the size of the global table,
... as long as it isn't something like a Cisco Catalyst 6509 with SUP720 and doesn't have a PFC3BXL helping out ... ... or if we conveniently don't classify a Catalyst 65xx as a router because it was primarily intended as a switch, despite how ISP's commonly use them ... > so only edge devices > or stub networks are in danger of needing to filter /24s. And both of > those can (should?) have something called a "default route", making it > completely irrelevant whether they hear the /24s anyway. A more accurate statement is probably that "any router that can handle 10s of Gbps is likely to be available in a configuration that is not at all bothered by the current size of the global table, most likely at some substantial additional cost." ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
