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The routing table issueThe routing table issuePosted Jan 27, 2011 15:41 UTC (Thu) by foom (subscriber, #14868)In reply to: The routing table issue by mstefani Parent article: LCA: IP address exhaustion and the end of the open net
> By assuming an hierarchical internet where everybody but the tier 1 providers are single homed?
Actually the (completely unworkable) idea was that people who had multiple providers would simply have multiple IP addresses, and advertise all of them. That *possibly* could have even worked (with a lot of effort) if TCP supported multiple endpoints and transparently switched between them in real-time. But, it doesn't.
The one (pretty minor) remaining thing IPv6 does to help reduce routing-table size is reduce fragmentation of the address space -- a single organization at a single location is less likely to need multiple non-contiguous addresses spaces than in IPv4.
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The routing table issue Posted Jan 28, 2011 7:20 UTC (Fri) by butlerm (subscriber, #13312) [Link] That *possibly* could have even worked (with a lot of effort) if TCP supported multiple endpoints and transparently switched between them in real-time. But, it doesn't.That is why they invented SCTP, which does all that and more. Perhaps too much even.
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