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

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> 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.
> 
> 

do you have any numbers on that? because i don't see it.
Even my old Pentium4 route servers do very nicely with that.
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With what?
My company is very small and even currently used hardware routers can't
handle 3-4 (1Gbit|sec) upstream connections efficiently (doing BGP in
addition of course).
When we add several hundred thousands IPV6 routes we are going to
extremely upgrades our infrastructure, but smaller ISP (business...)
which can't pay $100/month will not be able to do so definitely.


> Sascha Lenz [SLZ-RIPE]
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And look at the processing power of the Route Engines of the 
hardware routers... wow are they slow! 
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You know - they are different. :) Mostly they have distributed computing
environment and hardware programmed to do specific operations, huge
backbones and many-many other things which PC lacks.

The widespread PI will definitely adds significant amount to the number
of routes, so your forwarding problem will be much worse.

Regards,
Vladislav Potapov
IIAT, Ltd.

P.S. Sorry for some earlier messages without signature.