If you maximally disaggregate to /24, you end up with about 12M fib entries. At /25 this doubles and you double it again for every bit you move right.
At /24, we are on borrowed time without walking right. Also, the CPU in most routers won’t handle the churn of a 10M prefix RIB. Owen > On Oct 4, 2023, at 03:15, Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote: > > > >> On 10/4/23 12:11, Musa Stephen Honlue wrote: >> >> Which one is easier, >> >> 1. Convincing the tens of thousands of network operators and equipment >> vendors to modify configs and code to accept more specifics than /24, or > > Equipment vendors can already support 10 million entries in FIB. They just > ask for a little bit of cash for it. > > Mark.
