Re: [v6ops] PI [ULA draft revision #2 Regarding isolated networks]

Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> Fri, 30 May 2014 14:37 UTC

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Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 15:37:21 +0100
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Subject: Re: [v6ops] PI [ULA draft revision #2 Regarding isolated networks]
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On 30/05/2014 15:21, John Curran wrote:
> On May 30, 2014, at 10:13 AM, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 30/05/2014 15:09, Nick Hilliard wrote:
>>> e.g. asr9000 typhoon cards. 
>>
>> correction: typhoon cards have 4M FIB "credits".  ipv4 entries take one
>> credit; ipv6 take two.  So assuming no ipv4, a typhoon card will handle 2m
>> ipv6 FIB entries.
> 
> Acceptable end state does not imply viable intermediate states.

itym, "acceptable intermediate states do not imply viable end state".

We can all agree to that, but we have 60x overhead on current generation
technology and linear growth.  There are more pressing problems than this.
 Let's deal with them instead.

Nick