[ppml] [address-policy-wg] Re: article about IPv6 vs firewalls vs NAT in arstechnica (seen on slashdot)
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Martin Hannigan
martin.hannigan at batelnet.bs
Wed May 16 18:13:27 CEST 2007
----- Original Message ----- From: Jeroen Massar <jeroen at unfix.org> To: Woeber at CC.UniVie.ac.at Cc: ppml at arin.net, address-policy-wg at ripe.net Subject: Re: [ppml] [address-policy-wg] Re: article about IPv6 vs firewalls vs NAT in arstechnica (seen on slashdot) Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 19:05:44 +0100 > Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet wrote: > [..] > > I simply take it as living proof that almost nobody > > really cares about seeing some (50..)70K+ routes more or > less in their boxes, these days. > > See it is a business trick: when there are say 300k routes > in the routing tables, you are forcing your competition to > also carry that amount of routes in their tables, that > means your competition will also have to buy fast new cool > routers with a lot of memory. This makes various vendors > happy, but it also takes care of emptying your > competitions pocket books. When they spend all their cash > on routers, they won't be able to invest in other things > or need to up their prices, resulting in those customers > coming to you etc etc etc. Economics 101. Has not much to > do with "The Internet" any more. > > The road to monopoly has many routes ;) The hyperbole is so thick that it can be cut with a chainsaw. -M<
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