Sabri Berisha wrote:
Just for fun, I did the math. A total of 16,777,216 /24s fit in 32
bits. Take away all the reserved space as per IANA (this is 1,266,696
/24s, see below),
> 240.0.0.0/4 1048576
I think we should also take away multicast addresses of
> 224.0.0.0/4 1048576
because multicast route can not be aggregated and must
be treated as /32.
Anyway,
The largest FIB table I have seen (hi Jim!) was 3,563,546 routes in
hardware. This was in a lab environment, of course.
for /24, these days, having 16M entry SRAM (simple one, not
TCAM) is trivially easy.
Masataka Ohta
