CIDR FAQ
Tony Li tli at cisco.com
Wed Aug 16 10:31:43 CEST 1995
If you router is non-expandable then bitch to your supplier, be they Cisco, Bay, the-guy-down-the-road-in-the-garage - anyone. I see we still have an education problem. Sigh. The intrinsic problem is that the routing table is growing faster than we can develop bigger routers. It's not just us. It's growing faster than the computer industry can grow memory either. [The computer industry doubles memory sizes every two years or so. The routing table doubles every nine months.] BTW - I have not studied the RFC's - so what will IPv6 do for us in the contect of routeing aggregation and latger boxes etc ? Absolutely Nothing. You end up back at hierarchical routing. IPv6 gets you a bigger address space, so it actually hurts in that it takes more memory to store a prefix. Tony
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