[c-nsp] Router recommendation for small ISP

[Mounir Mohamed]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick at foobar.org> wrote:

> On 17/02/2011 10:03, Mounir Mohamed wrote:
>
>>  From a different angle, IPv4 depletion will defuse the increasing of IPv4
>> routes on the internet.
>>
>
> That may happen.  Alternatively, as people become desperate about acquiring
> new IPv4 address space in order to grow their businesses, they will buy /
> lease it on the grey market.  If this happens, it's quite likely that
> deaggregation will happen at a hugely accelerated rate.
>
Totally right, good point.


> At the moment, it's not clear which way it's going to go, but if I were
> buying an ASK1k for DFZ operation right now, I would make sure it could
> handle 1m ipv4 prefixes.


To have ESP higher than ESP5 you should go to at least ASR1004, back to the
budget.


> Nick
>
>


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