Impact of IPv4 Transfers on Routing Table Fragmentation
Rene Wilhelm is a senior research engineer in the R&D department at the RIPE NCC. Coming from a background in particle physics, Rene joined the RIPE NCC in 1996. His interests are in data analysis, routing, Internet measurements and visualisation. More
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IP address transfers have the potential to create more entries in the routing table for the same amount of address space. We analyse the net effect that four years of IPv4 transfers in the RIPE NCC service region have had on routing table growth and compare this to growth for allocations from which…