> According to this afternoon's Bates Report, there are over 95,000 routes
> being advertised across the internet, at least from the vantage point of the
> gentleman doing the reporting.
>
> I bring this up because a week ago, the reporter saw 93,000 routes.
At some point this week they were at 110,000 also. Some weird anamoly
occured.
> Historically, in September 1996 there were about 40,000 routes advertised.
> In September 1998 that number was around 50,000.
>
> I gotta wonder how much of this increase is due to people multiple homing
> with different ISP's so they can "load balance across the internet"? :->
Sure, more /24's on the net then ever...
> In any case, for those who ask "how big a router do I need to handle the
> full internet routing table?" the answer may well be "how many months do you
> want to keep the same unit in service?"
I was recently reading about a startup think-tank that was actually
looking at the problem of the growing route table and how to handle it
with some forethought as opposed to just throwing more hardware at it.
I will offer that unless you are a tier-1/2 provider, you don't need full
route tables though. All most multihomed networks with 2-4 peers need is
their provider's customer routes to make intelligent routing
decisions. Anything else can be tweaked as needed, but ultimatly things
are generally connected enough it doesn't much matter...
> Can you imagine what this would be without CIDR?
Much less I would bet, then again maybe not since we would be long out of
IP space and dealing with all those IPv6 routes..
andy
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