[address-policy-wg] getting second IPv6 PA as a LIR

Hay,


Am 03.05.2011 um 15:37 schrieb <poty at iiat.ru> <poty at iiat.ru>:

>>> And why wouldn't the Internet work with 600,000 prefixes in the DFZ?
>> 
>> Now all of a sudden for instance Cisco 7600 3CXL isn't enough to old
a
> full table (at around 750k).
>> 
>> Also, IPv6 uses twice the TCAM resources as IPv4...
> 
> so, basically what you are saying is that you know that your routers
> need an upgrade in 5 years and you 
> don't want to pay for an upgrade or you can't figure out a business
plan
> which covers the costs for that?
> But you are telling small ISPs/NCOs/"hobbyusers"/whatever THEY don't
get
> their business plan right
> if they don't can afford paying $$$ for PI space or rather would
prefer
> to pay other bills with the
> money? WTF?!
> 
> ------
> No, the problem that the small ISPs you are speaking about will have
to
> spend that money to swallow such routing table. And it is not $2000,
> "slightly" more...

Sascha Lenz [SLZ-RIPE]
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Small companies start with small routers, PC based Linux Quagga Boxes,
or Routerboards,
or Juniper J-Series or whatever - not really much costs here (see other
replies).
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They will not be able to "start with small routers", because calculating
constantly changing routes (presumable from several sources) costs
processing power, routing decisions with huge routing table cost
processing power, even receiving and sending plain packets costs
processing power. And all this costs money. PC-based routers are not
able to do all of this at once and in this anount.
The "selfish" small ISPs could easily drive himself into trap of trouble
when they have to spent much more money for equipment (and made all
others do it) rather than using PA from LIR.