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Start accepting longer prefixes as IPv4 depletes?
From: Jeff Wheeler <jsw () inconcepts biz>
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 15:01:43 -0500
How many networks already leak numerous unnecessary /24s to their transit providers, who accept them (not having been asked to do anything else), and contribute to table bloat? Quite a lot of networks do this. Imagine if there are many possible inter-domain routes that are being filtered by transit networks, because their customers accidentally announce some number of /25-/32 networks to them. These do not affect us today; but I would hate to see all those accidental announcements suddenly appear in my routing table; or for my transit providers to have the bear the expense of dealing with them. -- Jeff S Wheeler <jsw () inconcepts biz> Sr Network Operator / Innovative Network Concepts
Current thread:
- Re: Start accepting longer prefixes as IPv4 depletes?, (continued)
- Re: Start accepting longer prefixes as IPv4 depletes? Iljitsch van Beijnum (Dec 08)
- Re: Start accepting longer prefixes as IPv4 depletes? Owen DeLong (Dec 08)
- Re: Start accepting longer prefixes as IPv4 depletes? James Hess (Dec 08)
- Re: Start accepting longer prefixes as IPv4 depletes? Owen DeLong (Dec 08)
- Re: Start accepting longer prefixes as IPv4 depletes? Jack Bates (Dec 09)
- Re: Start accepting longer prefixes as IPv4 depletes? Iljitsch van Beijnum (Dec 08)
- Re: Start accepting longer prefixes as IPv4 depletes? Loránd Jakab (Dec 09)
- Re: Start accepting longer prefixes as IPv4 depletes? David Conrad (Dec 08)
- Start accepting longer prefixes as IPv4 depletes? Jeff Wheeler (Dec 08)
- RE: Start accepting longer prefixes as IPv4 depletes? George Bonser (Dec 08)
- Re: Start accepting longer prefixes as IPv4 depletes? Luigi Iannone (Dec 10)