RE: Route table/time growth matrix, pre/post CIDR

[Frank T Solensky <[e-mail]>]

>>Reply to your message of 4/4/97 1:56 PM
>
>> > One thing that I was also looking for was an extrapolation of what the
>> > prefix count would be today without CIDR. One figure that has been
>> > mentioned is somewhere in the neighborhood of 650k, although admittedly
>> > this needs to be examined more closely.
>
>I'm not sure that there is enough available information to answer
>this question.  You can easily determine how many /24's would be
>formed from each block which is now announced, but without CIDR,
>wouldn't you also assume that every end-site gets at least a /24,
>instead of something in the /25 to /30 range?
>_________________________________________________________
>Matt Crawford          [e-mail]          Fermilab
>

According to the most recent address dump I've got, there are
3159 nets that fall into the /25 to /29 range (there's no /30s)
that account for 138,968 addresses; would have been 808,704 if
they were all C-sized instead.