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

Erik-Jan Bos <erik-jan.bos@surfnet.nl> Fri, 04 April 1997 13:14 UTC

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To: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
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Subject: Re: Route table/time growth matrix, pre/post CIDR
In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 04 Apr 1997 06:50:30 -0500.
From: Erik-Jan Bos <erik-jan.bos@surfnet.nl>
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Paul,

> BTW, Scott Bradner pointed me to:  
> 
>   ftp://ftp.nic.surfnet.nl/surfnet/net-management/ip/nets.ps
> 
> Which provides a graph of prefixen counts since 1 Jan 94. This helps
> immensely.

Yes, and this graph is updated automatically with the latest figures
every hour on the hour.

> 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.

In 70 minutes time I am on my 8 hour flight to Memphis, equipped with
laptop and routing table dump. I'll see what I can come up with. :-).

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Erik-Jan.