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

[Gary T. Giesen]

On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 17:07 -0400, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> 
> On 4/14/2010 1:52 PM, Milton L Mueller wrote:
> >> If you take a full unfiltered table without a default route, yes. This
> >> is pretty basic for BGP.
> >>
> >
> > I understand that. The issue is how many take a full table.
> >
> 
> I think that years ago a lot more didn't take a full table.  But
> dram is cheaper than paying a network admin to maintain a filter
> table and so many sites nowadays haven't seemed to have heard
> anything about the RADb or what it does, so filters created from
> that database are more historical interest than anything else.
> Without a valid and current routing arbiter it's a very labor intensive 
> process to keep a filter updated, and the community cannot seem even to
> keep WHOIS updated properly.
> 
> I'm just crossing my fingers that the hardware vendors can keep
> ahead of table growth.  Maybe it would have been better for Nvidia
> or ATI to be the major router manufacturers instead of Juniper or
> Cisco, since both those companies seem to have an allergy to large
> amounts of high speed ram in their products.

Even new Cisco's CPEs have have 2 GB of ram in them these days
(19xx/29xx series). But you're comparing two *COMPLETELY* different
kinds of ram. The Tertiary Content-Addressable Memory in hardware
forwarding platforms (7600 & up, Juniper M series) is *extremely*
expensive and they're running into density problems now. It's nothing
like the DRAM you see in a GPU.

GG


> Ted
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