On May 27, 2011, at 11:50 AM, t.petch wrote:

> RRG, before looking for some architectures that would solve the world's 
> routing
> problems, did discuss the expected capacity of DFZ routers,  given the 
> expected
> rate of growth of technology, so as to work out how long the IETF has got to
> come up with something new.
> 
> The consensus was that routers could not be expected to support more than 1M
> entries in the RIB
[...]

Really?  I wouldn't put too much stock in that, given that current routers 
support substantially more than 1M.

> which is somewhat less than the 2.7M you expect in 2025.


More than that too.

Possibly you meant FIB and not RIB?  The reported numbers are wrong for that 
too, though not as egregiously.

--John
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