[address-policy-wg] getting second IPv6 PA as a LIR

> Sascha Lenz [SLZ-RIPE]
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> Small companies start with small routers, PC based Linux Quagga Boxes,
> or Routerboards,
> or Juniper J-Series or whatever - not really much costs here (see other
> replies).
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> 
> They will not be able to "start with small routers", because calculating
> constantly changing routes (presumable from several sources) costs
> processing power, routing decisions with huge routing table cost
> processing power, even receiving and sending plain packets costs
> processing power. And all this costs money. PC-based routers are not
> able to do all of this at once and in this anount.
> The "selfish" small ISPs could easily drive himself into trap of trouble
> when they have to spent much more money for equipment (and made all
> others do it) rather than using PA from LIR.

Don't worry about computing power, small ISPs usually are less than 
200Mbit/s total upstreams, to even if they handle 1G with today's CPUs 
it is not a big deal (rather stability can be a problem).

More, probably within 1-2 years there will be a set of drivers/kernel 
support of handling packets by high efficients processors from... 
graphics ;)


Regards,
Marcin