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The introduction of a second IP protocol into the Internet presents many technical issues, and in previous columns we’ve explored many of the issues related to network engineering and infrastructure. In this column I’d like to head upward in the protocol stack to the rarefied air way up there at…
In the previous article on the growth trends of BGP we looked at the BGP routing table, and looked at some predictive models for the growth of the size of the Internet’s routing table. The conclusions made in that article were that while there is a very high level of…
The front page story of the September 13 2011 issue of the International Herald Tribune said it all: “Iranian activists feel the chill as hacker taps into e-mails.” The news story relates how a hacker has “sneaked into the computer systems of a security firm on the outskirts of Amsterdam”…
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.
