[c-nsp] BGP table growth and memory

[Randy Bush]

> 256 Mb will last for "another 2-3 years" if people would finally start
> to *care* what sort of garbage they announce into the routing table.
> 
> Unfortunately, these days it seems to be "pretty normal" to have a /19
> and announce it as 32 x /24, and similar garbage that has no benefit
> for anyone.
> 
> Studies by Geoff Houston and others show that the routing table could
> be condensed a LOT without losing *any* information (that is: combining
> only routing table entries where all BGP data [as path etc.] matches).
> </rant>

what happened to the hack, discussed on this list, to allow me to
filter covered prefixes at my border?  oh rodney!

randy