By David Meyer
Published: Monday 18 June 2007
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This is the sole reason that IPv6 is not taking off.
Today's internet was so successful largely thanks to loose rules. Yes, the route table is huge compared to 1993 when I first started in this industry. Big deal.
Instead of these policies that say you can only get IPs from an ISP and dictate how you can multihome, users should be pressuring their router vendors to support more than a handful of IPv6 routes in the CAM space.
Eventually, these monarchaic rules will be lifted. Unfortunately, I fear that it will be too late and routers will require hardware upgrades for larger CAMs (fortunately for Cisco).
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