Vince Fuller has done some projections on what the the routing tables will be like in the near future which would be useful for you, check out http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-53/presentations/rou-vf-sca.pdf
If you are looking at doing simulations of what it could be like, use similar figures to his for IPv4 & IPv6 routing table size. Regards Bradley Freeman 2008/9/1 Moazzam Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Thanks Stefan for your reply. > > Basically the goal of this testing is to study the BGP scalability issues > in > the internet sometime in future lets say 10 years from now and try to find > out what problems it could face . I am trying to use ns2 as my simulation > environment. > > Can you suggest how I can set up the envrionment for this kind of study and > what parameters should I try to caputre. > > Regards > MAK > > On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Fouant, Stefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >wrote: > > > Topology and setup of these kinds of tests largely depend on whether you > > are testing iBGP or eBGP. In my experience, eBGP testing is fairly > straight > > forward as you are almost always testing reconvergence of the BGP > next-hop. > > iBGP testing scenarios on the other hand can be quite a bit more complex > as > > you may also be testing the reconvergence of the underlying IGP if the > BGP > > next-hop remains unchanged. Can you describe your testing goals and > > environment in a bit more detail? > > > > Stefan Fouant > > Principal Network Engineer > > NeuStar, Inc. - http://www.neustar.biz > > GPG Key ID: 0xB5E3803D > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Moazzam Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: nanog@nanog.org <nanog@nanog.org> > > Sent: Mon Sep 01 15:37:19 2008 > > Subject: BGP Scalability Simulation > > > > Hi > > > > I am trying to simulate BGP for scalability testing. I have few queries. > > > > > > 1) What sort of topology I should try out ? > > > > 2) What parameters should I test? > > > > I am trying to simulate it in ns-2 and i would appreciate reply from you > > guys. > > > > Regards > > > > MAK > > >