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

Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com> Fri, 04 April 1997 13:42 UTC

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Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 07:27:24 -0500
To: Erik-Jan Bos <erik-jan.bos@surfnet.nl>
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: Route table/time growth matrix, pre/post CIDR
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At 01:56 PM 4/4/97 +0200, Erik-Jan Bos wrote:

>
>> 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. :-).
>

Cool. :-)

- paul