[arin-ppml] IPv6 /32 minimum for extra-small ISP

Seth Mattinen sethm at rollernet.us
Wed Apr 14 16:19:30 EDT 2010


On 4/14/2010 13:08, Milton L Mueller wrote:
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bill Woodcock [mailto:woody at pch.net]
>>
>> The router doesn't care how important you think a route is, or how much
>> you like it, or how many IP addresses or users sit behind it. It's
>> still a route, and the amount of memory it consumes is still just
>> dependent upon its associated path and options.
> 
> "everyone else's router." 
> 
> So when a small ISP in Madagascar advertises a new route, resources are consumed here at my router here at Syracuse University? Please confirm this? 
> 


If you take a full unfiltered table without a default route, yes. This
is pretty basic for BGP.

~Seth



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