BGP has been toiling away, literally holding the Internet together, for more than two decades, and nothing seems to be falling off the edge of the Internet. As far as we can tell everyone can still see everyone else, and routing appears to be working. So why should we be…

Recently I wrote about the IPv4 routing table, and the changes that were observed across 2011. A reader has asked me: “Is the v6 table included in this? Would the v6 table size curve in any way pick up where the v4 curve “left off”? Maybe I’m being too hopeful!”…

The size of the global routing table for IPv4 has been growing at a steady pace for many years. However, over the last few months, the world of IPv4 routing appears to be slowing down.