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Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

  • From: Alexei Roudnev
  • Date: Fri Jul 08 04:13:12 2005 
What is CPU power of today's core routers? What's memory? Compare with
junk-yard server - 2 x 1.4Ggz CPU, 4 GB RAM, total price about $1.5K.

Routers have 3 - 10 times reserve _today_ . Then, you can always sacrify
reaction time a little. Reserves are tremendous in this area.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Randy Bush" <[email protected]>
To: "Alexei Roudnev" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 1:23 PM
Subject: Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008


> > Is it a pproblem keeping 500,000 routess in core routers? Of
> > course, it is not (it was in 1996, but it is not in 2005
>
> really?  we have not seen this so how do you know?  and it
> will be fine with churn and pushing 300k forwarding entries
> into the fibs on a well-known vendor's line cards?
>
> randy
>