[Cerowrt-devel] Recording RF management info _and_ associated traffic?

[David Lang]

On Sun, 25 Jan 2015, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 18:09:59 -0800, David Lang said:
>> The difference is that the switches and their protocols have been designed from
>> the beginning for this scale of operation, IP routing protocols are designed for
>> much fewer endpoints to track.
>
> Anybody who's carrying a full routing table was swallowing on the order
> of 528,833 routes (as of Friday's "weekly routing table report" posted
> to NANOG).  Pretty much everybody and their pet llama accepts full tables
> thesedays.
>
> You know anybody who's doing that many entries in an L2 Ethernet broadcast
> domain?

The full IP routing tables are something that you normally only have to deal 
with in a few devices at the perimeter of your network.

What is being talked about here is routing each /32 IP address individually 
throughout your network so that any IP address can be connected anywhere and 
have it 'just work' as far as the client on that IP is concerned.

David Lang