Why should I make the effort and convert my routing to be CIDRized?
The routing tables in the Internet have been growing as fast as the Internet and the router technology specifically and computer technology in general has not been able to keep pace. In December 1990 there were 2190 routes and 2 years later there were over 8500 routes. In July 1995 there are now over 29,000 routes, which require approximately 10 MB in a router with a single peer. Routers at interconnection points (or multi-homed hosts doing full routing with many peers) receive these routes from several peers, and need several dozen megabytes of RAM (and the appropriate CPU horsepower) to handle this. A list of those routers that can handle this appears at the end of this question. Routers with 64MB of memory have the capacity for approximately 60,000 routes after which some routes will just have to be left out of the global routing tables, and the more likely ones to be left out are routes covering small pieces of address space. Without the CIDRization work that has gone on for the pa
