CIDR FAQ

On Wed, 16 Aug 1995, Paul A Vixie wrote:

> >    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
> 
> the plan is that IPv6 addresses will be allocated hierarchically from day 1,
> and with proxy aggregation it should be possible for sean's stated goal of
> "4 routes in the table on some defaultless networks" to be reached.
> 
> the routing table is no longer doubling every nine months.  we've been sort
> of hanging out in the 25,000 - 30,000 range for almost six months now.
> 
> the largest single component of the table size comes from old allocations of
> class c nets, which are 2/3 the total.
> 

Why can' the NIC reallocat the old class c's and use CIDR?

Nathan Stratton		  CEO, NetRail, Inc.    Your Gateway to the World!
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