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RE: What is a reasonable range for global BGP table size?

  • From: Kris Foster
  • Date: Thu Jul 18 13:16:06 2002

That number is still too high since some people are advertising their /25 to
/32 prefixes to the route-views box..

Kris


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jared Mauch [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 12:47 PM
> To: Robert Boyle
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: What is a reasonable range for global BGP table size?
> 
> 
> 
> 	I was going off my data analysis of
> route-views data.
> 
> wc -l oix.home_as.out
>   135949 oix.home_as.out
> 
> 	this file has prefix:home_asn
> 
> 	(where home_asn is the last asn in the as_path.  prefixes
> with inconsistent home_as will appear twice.  this may be 
> cause of some
> of your confusion.  eliminating those brings it to 120131 prefixes)
> 
> 	- jared
> 
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 12:37:09PM -0400, Robert Boyle wrote:
> > 
> > At 11:26 AM 7/18/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> > >Hmm.
> > >
> > >We don't filter, and
> > >
> > >112942 network entries and 391859 paths using 25288182 
> bytes of memory
> > 
> > We don't filter either and...
> > 
> > 117800 network entries and 339843 paths using 23660948 
> bytes of memory
> > 
> > 
> > "about 135k prefixes last i checked." is not what we see 
> here from any of 
> > our upstreams.
> > 
> > 
> > -Robert
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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