On 27 Apr 2014, at 5:19 am, Deepak Jain <dee...@ai.net> wrote: > >>> Historic event - 500K prefixes on the Internet. > >> And now we wait for everything to fall over at 512k ;) > > Based on a quick plot graph on the CIDR report, it looks like we are adding > 6,000 prefixes a month, or thereabouts. So platforms that break at 512K die > in two months or less? Sup720s may need to be reconfigured/rebooted, etc. > > Does anyone have doomsday plots of IPv6 prefixes? We are already at something > like 20,000 prefixes there, and a surprising number of deaggregates (like > /64s) in the global table. IIRC, a bunch of platforms will fall over at > 128K/256K IPv6 prefixes (but sooner, really, because of IPv4 dual stack). > > >
Check out pages 30 and 34 of http://www.potaroo.net/presentations/2014-02-09-bgp2013.pdf - a presentation I gave on predictions of BGP table size at NANOG 60 in February of this year. Geoff
