[c-nsp] Growing BGP tables

Gert Doering gert at greenie.muc.de
Mon Nov 22 02:54:48 EST 2004


Hi,

On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 08:15:30AM +1000, David J. Hughes wrote:
> And I hope that when that time comes the filtering of /24's is done 
> with a little restraint and sanity.  I know that in many places, 
> Australia in particular, there are lots and lots of /24's in use that 
> were allocated by the RIR of the time.  Dropping them would certainly 
> cause problems.  The old C Class space will need to be excluded from 
> filters if we are to avoid these sort of problems.

Surely it needs to be done with great care.

OTOH: people are free to renumber into aggregateable upstream space if
their /24 stops working.  Why do I have to pay for their convenience?

gert
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