>where theory hits reality is when those whiteboxes and their routing-stacks encounter the 600K routes coming from 40 different exits. still no viable solution

>where theory hits reality is when those whiteboxes and their routing-stacks encounter the 600K routes coming from 40 different exits. still no viable solution out there today- quagga, bird, any ? Well handling the routes themselves can be offloaded to regular servers. The issue is indeed managing the forwarding tables. "Something something aggregation, non contiguous bitmasks, NDA" runs wildly for the door. :)