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At 10:30 AM -0700 2005-07-08, Matt Ghali wrote: They're the biggest and most expensive routers on the Internet, and if the routing table were to be allowed to grow without bounds, they wouldn't be the only ones that would need to be replaced. Everyone else would very soon have the exact same problem.You keep using the "entire internet" in your replies, when I was under the assumption that we were discussing the inter-provider DFZ. The only routers which could possibly be affected by the "prefix bloat problem" would be multi-homed and mostly inter-provider, which is a small fraction of "all routers on the internet". And there are enough of them that you'd probably spend more money upgrading them than upgrading all the other routers in the world. Maybe a slight exaggeration, I grant you. But certainly on the right order of magnitude.I'm not trying to accuse you of anything, but your arguments are beginning to sound like a disingenuous straw-man. -- Brad Knowles, <[email protected]> "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755 SAGE member since 1995. See <http://www.sage.org/> for more info.
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