On Jul 25, 2012, at 10:16 PM, Geoff Huston <g...@apnic.net> wrote: > > On 21/07/2012, at 6:40 AM, Jared Mauch wrote: > >> >> On Jul 20, 2012, at 4:30 PM, Ron Broersma wrote: >> >>> >>> On Jul 20, 2012, at 1:04 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: >>>> On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 05:10:41 +1000, Routing Analysis Role Account said: >>>>> BGP routing table entries examined: 418048 >>>> So, whatever happened to that whole "the internet will catch fire when >>>> we get to 280K routing table entries" or whatever it was? :) >>> >>> We added memory where we could, or bought bigger routers. The new >>> (conventional wisdom) limit is 1M routes. >> >> I think you mean 512k IPv4 with 256k of IPv6 (taking double space). > > 512K of IPv4? That's getting close!
I know a few people had issues around the 256k barrier from tcam based platforms. Expect a lot of BGP instability as people react to 512k entries in their fib
